Image: Cleopatra's Barge 1818
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Description: Cleopatra's Barge was a yacht built in Massachusetts in 1816 which sailed across the Atlantic (including a visit to Napoleon). It was then sold to King Kamehameha II of Hawaii, who used it as a royal yacht. It sunk in the Hawaiian Islands in 1824 off the northern coast of Kaua'i on Hanalei Bay.
Title: Cleopatra's Barge 1818
Credit: exhitibit M-8255 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts http://historywired.si.edu/enlarge.cfm?ID=218&ShowEnlargement=2
Author: George Ropes
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