The USS Ericsson was a US Navy destroyer, named after Jon Ericsson, designer of the first Monitor-class ships during the War of Secession. In the last years of the Great War, the Ericsson found itself in a cat-and-mouse game with the Confederate submersible the CSS Bonefish, commanded by Roger Kimball. Shortly after the Great War ended in 1917, the Bonefish happened upon the Ericsson. Kimball decided to sink the ship, illegally.