1832 - USS Potomac, becomes the first U.S. Navy ship to entertain royalty, King and Queen of Sandwich Islands. 1858 - The last bit of cable is laid by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon to ...
SEA GIRT - Is Emma Spreckels the mysterious Sandwich Island girl, the "Gay Queen of the Waves," who put on a surfing expedition in Asbury Park in 1888, possibly the first of its kind on the East Coast ...