USS Oneida (1861)
The sinking of USS Oneida off Yokohama, Japan, 24 January 1870.
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| Name: | USS Oneida |
| Ordered: | February 1861 |
| Builder: | New York Navy Yard |
| Launched: | 20 November 1861 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1862 |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 24 January 1870 |
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| Type: | Screw sloop-of-war |
| Displacement: | 1,488 long tons (1,512 t) |
| Length: | 201 ft 5 in (61.39 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 10 in (10.31 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 186 officers and enlisted |
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The second USS Oneida was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. During the Civil War, she destroyed the CSS Governor Moore and served in blockade operations. She was attached to the Asiatic Squadron from 1867–1870. She sank in 1870 outside Yokohama, Japan after collision with the British steamer Bombay. The Court of Inquiry found the officers of Oneida were responsible for the collision. Bombay's captain was blamed for not staying at the scene to render assistance - a decision that caused some controversy. Japanese fishing boats saved 61 sailors but 125 men lost their lives. The American government made no attempt to raise the wreck and sold it to a Japanese wrecking company. The company recovered many bones from the wreck and interred them at their own expense. The Japanese erected a memorial tablet on the grounds of Ikegami Temple in Tokyo and held a Buddhist ceremony in the sailor's memory in May 1889.
Oneida was authorized by Act of Congress, February 1861, and built at the New York Navy Yard; launched 20 November 1861; and commissioned 28 February 1862, Captain Samuel Phillips Lee in command.
Shortly after commissioning Oneida sailed from New York and joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron commanded by Flag officer David Farragut. On 24 April she participated in the attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip below New Orleans, Louisiana, and drove off the Confederate ram which sank steam gunboat USS Varuna. Oneida destroyed CSS Governor Moore in a following engagement, the same date.
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