James Brooke, at that point a former British soldier who would become in 1841 the first "White Rajah" of Sarawak, purchased her in 1836 with money he had inherited from his father.

Brooke intended to use it for an expedition to the East Indies in the course of a circumnavigation of the globe,[1] in preparation for which he cruised in the Mediterranean in 1837.

[5] It appears that Royalist retained her name and ended up trading, after some time in the Sandwich Islands trade,[6] in Auckland, New Zealand, before being wrecked at Kawhia on 11 December 1854, when she was carrying a cargo of timber and wheat.

[7] In modern Sarawak, there are several references to this well known ship, such as The Royalist Pub in Kuching.

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