On October 30, 1889, the American ship Cheseborough, which was visiting Japan on a trading mission, ran aground and broke up off the coast of Nishihama Nakanomori. Of the twenty-three crew members, nineteen were swallowed by the waves, but four were rescued by fisherman and villagers who worked through storms at the risk of losing their lives. Among the rescuers was a woman named Han Kudo, who is said to have saved the life of a dying American by warming him with her body. This monument was erected in memory of yhe nineteen sailors whi were killed, and as a reminder of the courage and self-sacrafice of the villagers.
(Ref: Sign at Cheseborougn Memorial)
