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The USS ''Vincennes'' was a US Navy warship which visited Japan several times in the 1840s-1850s.
The USS ''Vincennes'' was a US Navy warship which visited Japan several times in the 1840s-1850s.
The ''Vincennes'' was one of the first US Navy ships to go to Japan, being captained by Commodore [[James Biddle]] to arrive at [[Uraga]] in [[1846]] alongside the USS ''Columbus''.
The ''Vincennes'' was one of the first US Navy ships to go to Japan, being captained by Commodore [[James Biddle]] to arrive at [[Uraga]] in [[1846]] alongside the USS ''Columbus''. After seven days in port, Biddle's request to have ports opened to American ships was rejected, and he left.<ref>Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 133-134n241.</ref>
The ship was used on an embassy to Japan again in [[1854]]-[[1855]], as part of a small fleet commanded by [[Commodore Matthew Perry]]. At least two members of the ''Vincennes'' crew died while on that embassy: John Williams and John Miller, both of whom died in 1854 and were buried in the [[Tomari International Cemetery]] in [[Naha]], on the island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]].
The ship was used on an embassy to Japan again in [[1854]]-[[1855]], as part of a small fleet commanded by [[Commodore Matthew Perry]]. At least two members of the ''Vincennes'' crew died while on that embassy: John Williams and John Miller, both of whom died in 1854 and were buried in the [[Tomari International Cemetery]] in [[Naha]], on the island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]].<ref>Graves and plaques on-site at [[Tomari International Cemetery]].</ref>
Commodore John Rodgers of the US North Pacific Surveying Expedition sailed to Japan once more aboard the ''Vincennes'' in [[1855]], arriving in [[Shimoda]] harbor on 3/27. On 3/29 and again on 4/11, Rodgers met with [[Tokugawa shogunate]] officials aboard the ''Vincennes''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 37-38, 45.</ref> Several days later, on 4/13, members of the crew went ashore at Shirahama (on the Izu peninsula) and surveyed the area before departing.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 47.</ref> Rodgers then sailed the ''Vincennes'' (along with the ''[[John Hancock]]'' and ''[[Fenimore Cooper]]'') to [[Hakodate]], where he spent roughly three weeks (4/23 to 5/13) trying to convince ''[[Hakodate bugyo|Hakodate bugyô]]'' to allow several American passengers to come ashore and to take up lodgings, as provided for in the [[Convention of Kanagawa]]; ultimately, he retracted his request and sent the passengers home aboard the US merchant vessel ''[[Caroline Foote]]''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 53, 57, 61-63.</ref>
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[[Category:Ships|Vincennes]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu|Vincennes]]