The U.S. ship ONEIDA was built at New York by Jacob A. Westervelt & William Mackey in 1841, for the Second Line of sailing packets between New York and Havre. 791 tons; 154 feet 6 inches x 34 feet x 22 feet 3 inches (length x beam x depth of hold). During her service with the Havre Second Line, her westbound passages averaged 38 days, her shortest passage being 28 days, her longest 59 days. She was wrecked near the Island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, 19 December 1849,

Sources: Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 286-287; Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961), p. 395.