Category Archives: Flag

Queen Kapiolani’s Gifts Lost at Sea, 1900.

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GIFTS FROM QUEEN KAPIOLANI.

Aboard the ship Doric returning to the United States, in a weakened state, was Captain T. Myers of the warship Charleston. According to him, the silk American flag and the beautiful wooden calabash gifted to Captain Glass, the captain of the warship, when it landed here in Honolulu in June 1898, as a gift to the warship Charleston for returning the remains of her husband King Kalakaua from San Francisco.

Captain T. Myers was aboard the Charleston at the time and was the captain of the marines. When the Charleston ran aground and sank in the lagoon off an island in the Philippines, it took along with it the gifts of Queen Kapiolani down into the bowels of the ocean. They did not try to save any of the property; the lives aboard the ship were all that were saved. T. Myers greatly regrets the loss of these precious treasures.

(Aloha Aina, 11/17/1900, p. 2)

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke VI, Helu 46, Aoao 2. Mei 20, 1900.

Where is the royal standard? 1918.

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DOES ANYONE KNOW OF THE ROYAL STANDARD?

This office was asked by the director of the museum at Kamehameha Schools [Bishop Museum] if there is someone who remembers where the royal standard of Hawaii nei was put that was taken from the palace flagpole when the throne was snatched from Queen Liliuokalani, and being that no one in this office [of the Kuokoa newspaper] remembers about that flag, we therefore are putting this question before the public; perhaps there is a Hawaiian who knows of that flag, or has heard where it was placed. Continue reading →

Description of royal standards of Likelike, Kaiulani, and Liliuokalani, 1885.

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The new flag presented to H. R. H. Princess Likelike by his Majesty the King was floating from the mainmast of the steamer W. G. Hall as she came into port Tuesday afternoon. It is red and white stripes with the Hawaiian coat of arms and crown in the centre, Continue reading →

La Hoihoi Ea celebration, 1863.

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Restoration Day.—The public has heard that the people of Honolulu are putting on a banquet for the day that the Hawaiian Flag was returned, and the alii of the land are kindly assisting in this endeavor taken up by their people. All friends should look and understand the Announcement published in today’s paper; Continue reading →