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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>

 

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