USS Oneida

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Tombstone at Ikegami Honmon-ji.

The USS Oneida was a United States naval ship which was lost in Tokyo Bay on January 24, 1870 (Meiji 2/12/23). A tombstone, marked in English, was erected at Ikegami Honmon-ji in Tokyo in memory of the men lost.

References

  • Oscar Walter Farenholt, "U.S.S. Oneida, Lost January 24, 1870 in Yeddo (Tokyo) Bay, Japan: Reminiscences," US Naval Institute, 1914.