article_snippet.sent: The sunken yacht, which became known as 'Pride of Hawaii', was 83-feet-long and considered the first luxury ocean-going yacht in the United States when the first luxury ocean-going yacht in the United States sunk just off Kauai in April 1824 .
article_snippet.sent: Kamehameha II purchased the yacht from George Crowninshield II, who named it 'Cleopatra's Barge' in 1816.
article_snippet.sent: According to Wong, it cost $50,000 to build the 192 ton yacht.
article_snippet.sent: Rogers said it was the 192 ton yacht.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ship owned by King Kamehameha II, the second king of Hawaii, sank off the coast of Kauai in April 1824 .
  