Merchant Marine Cemetery

Oakwood, Richmond County, New York, USA

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Get directions 3315 Amboy Rd
Oakwood, New York 10306 United States

Coordinates: 40.56433, -74.14702
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At a back corner of Ocean View Cemetery in the Oakwood section of Staten Island is a narrow gravel road that leads into the woods. Here are headstones marking the graves of merchant mariners who died between 1901 and 1937 in a federal hospital on the borough's north shore. The Marine Hospital, established on Bay Street in the Clifton section in the 1880s, was part of a network of hospitals around the country that were dedicated to the care of sick and disabled seamen. After the graveyard on the hospital grounds became full, in 1901 the Marine Hospital purchased a section of Ocean View Cemetery as a new burial ground for the seamen who died in the facility. There are approximately 1,000 men buried here from all around the world.

The admin of Ocean View Cemetery considers The Merchant Marine Cemetery (MMC) to be "semi-private" in that no one should be back there by themselves. If anyone would like to visit, they suggest calling and make an appt so that a staff member can escort you to the MMC.

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