Atahualpa was a United States merchant ship that sailed on four maritime fur trading ventures in the early 1800s.

In January 1815 Bering, under the command of the American James Bennett, returned to Hawaii where it wrecked at Waimea Bay, Kauai.

Atahualpa spent the summer of 1801 cruising the coast, then wintered at Nahwitti, at the north end of Vancouver Island.

Then Atahualpa sailed back home via the Sunda Strait and Cape of Good Hope, arriving in Boston in June 1803.

[1] Shortly after returning to Boston in 1803 Atahualpa set out on another maritime fur trading voyage, this time under the command of Oliver Porter.

A canoe brought the local chief, who called for Captain Porter to inspect some sea otter furs.

He immediately turned the ship over to Captain Brown, who sent his chief mate, David Adams, over to take command of Atahualpa.

[3] News of the attack spread quickly along the coast and by 27 June there were six New England trading vessels at Nahwitti, three belonging to the Lyman Company, Atahualpa, under David Adams, Vancouver, under Thomas Brown, and Lydia, under Samuel Hill, and the vessels Juno, under John DeWolf, Pearl, and Mary.

On 3 July Brown and Hurd decided that it would be in the best interest of their employer if the cargos of Vancouver and Lydia were consolidated and one of the ships accompany Atahualpa to Canton.

As Atahualpa began to sail away, without the escort Brown and Hurd had wanted, Captain Hill approached in a boat and demanded to come aboard to get his cook.

Ebenezer Clinton's journal of the Atahualpa and Vancouver includes a song memorializing the event, called The Bold Northwestman.

[1] Atahualpa sailed a third maritime fur trading voyage under William Sturgis, leaving Boston in October 1806.

[5] Atahualpa sailed a fourth maritime fur trading voyage under John Suter, leaving Boston in October 1811.

[6] These were William Heath Davis of Isabella, James Bennett of Lydia, Nathan or John Winship, and Lemuel Porter of the Tamaahmaah.

[7] Bennett sailed Bering back to Hawaii to pick up provisions for Russian America, arriving at Kauai in early October 1814.

[6] Bennett and his crew were stranded on Kauai for two months until 11 April 1815, when they obtained passage on the Albatross, under Captain William Smith.

The Native Hawaiian chief Kaumualiʻi kept the ship's goods, including the cargo of furs and the crew's personal possessions.

Captain Smith took Bennett to Sitka, Alaska, where he informed Baranov of the loss of Bering and tried to convince him to use force to retrieve the cargo and other property.

On 2 June 1816 Kaumualiʻi agreed to return the cargo that remained and pay restitution in sandalwood for any items that could no longer be accounted for.