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	USS Somers
		The first USS Somers was a schooner that fought under Commodore Ferry on Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and took part in the capture of the British Squadron on 10 September 1813.
		Somers was in the Gulf of Mexico off Vera Cruz at the opening of the Mexican War in the spring of 1846; and, but for runs to Pensacola, Florida, for logistics, she remained in that area on blockade duty until winter.
		The fourth USS Somers (DD-301) was a Clemson-class destroyer[?] engaged in peacetime operations with the Pacific Fleet from 1920 until she was scrapped under the London Disarmament Treaty[?] in 1930.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Somers.html (1146 words)

	USS Somers (1842) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second USS Somers was a brig in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War, infamous for being the only U.S. Navy ship to undergo a mutiny which lead to executions.
		Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		The story of the Somers Affair and the subsequent trial was dramatized in the penultimate episode of the sixth season of the television series JAG.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Somers_(1842) (775 words)

	USS Somers
		On 4 September 1804, Somers assumed command of bomb ketch Intrepid which had been fitted out as a "floating volcano" to be sailed into Tripoli harbor and blown up in the midst of the corsair fleet close under the walls of the city.
		The second Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842, and was commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		Somers was in the Gulf of Mexico off Vera Cruz at the opening of the Mexican War in the spring of 1846; and, but for runs to Pensacola for logistics, she remained in that area on blockade duty until winter.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s/somers.htm (832 words)

	Idiocentrism
		When the USS Philadelphia was captured, the American commander realized that it would be dangerous to leave it in enemy hands, so Lt. Stephen Decatur and 70 volunteers were sent (in a captured Tripolitan ship renamed the Intrepid) on a bold raid to destroy the Philadelphia.
		"In September, 1804, Lieutenant Somers was given charge of the Intrepid, a bomb ketch that had been filled with explosives and was to be sailed into the harbor at Tripoli and set to explode in the centre of the enemy fleet after the crew had abandoned her.
		USS Somers left New York for the west coast of Africa.
	www.idiocentrism.com /barbary.htm (1616 words)

	USS Somers Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USS Somers Info - Bored Net - Boredom
		Somers reached St. Thomas on 5 December and returned to New York on 14 December.
		Somers was in the Gulf of Mexico off Vera Cruz at the opening of the Mexican-American War in the spring of 1846; and, but for runs to Pensacola, Florida, for logistics, she remained in that area on blockade duty until winter.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/u/us/uss_somers.html (1173 words)

	USN Ships--USS Somers (1842-1846)
		USS Somers, a 259-ton Bainbridge class brig, was built at the New York Navy Yard.
		Commissioned in May 1842, she made a brief shakedown cruise to the Caribbean area, then left New York in September on a training voyage to the west coast of Africa.
		Somers is visible in the right background, on her beam ends.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/somers2.htm (438 words)

	USS Somers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Somers was a schooner that fought under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and took part in the capture of the British Squadron on 10 September 1813.
		The second Somers was a brig launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		The third, USS Somers (TB-22), was a torpedo boat built in Germany in 1895 and purchased during the War of 1898.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Somers (359 words)

	Roster of the U.S.S. Ceres
		Assigned to the USS Miantonomoh with the European Squadron in 1867.
		Fired on by the enemy with small arms, Hand courageously returned the raking enemy fire and was spoken of for "good conduct and cool bravery under enemy fire," by the commanding officer.
		Assigned to the USS Daffodil on the North Atlantic Squadron in 1867.
	home.att.net /~cwppds/ceres.htm (638 words)

	Slidell Hotels
		He was the brother of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a naval officer who commanded the USS Somers on which a unique event occurred in 1842 off the coast of Africa during the Blockade of Africa.
		While in command of the ''USS Somers'' in 1842, enroute to the United States from the West African coast, Commander Mackenzie oversaw the arrest, trial, and execution of three American sailors who had plotted to take control of the ship.
		Although he was completely exonerated at a trial and at a subsequent court martial, the controversial incident (known as the "''Somers'' Affair") colored the remainder of Mackenzie's life.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/187/slidell-hotels.html (1437 words)

	STORIES ABOUT VANCE The Vance Mutiny: Fact Mirrors Fiction
		Instead, USS Caine suffered a "virtual mutiny," in, which support from the commander's junior officers eroded to the point where control slipped from his hands.
		USS Vance was a destroyer escort, hull No. 387 of the Edsal class, built in Houston, Texas, in 1943.
		The USS Vance affair was certainly influenced by the social turbulence of the 1960s, but it also mirrored the events aboard the fictional USS Caine.
	www.ussvance.com /Vance/smithg/smithtxt.htm (3652 words)

	"Mutiny"
		As Mac prepares to give a lecture on a famous naval case involving mutiny and executions aboard the U.S.S. Somers in 1842, she finds herself daydreaming about the events imagining her co-workers in the roles of those aboard the ship.
		It's December 1, 1842 aboard the USS Somers in the Western Atlantic.
		The Captain of the Somers is telling his crew to ready their lines and the gun.
	members.aol.com /tomcat7802/shows/s6sh23.html (3685 words)

	United States of America Congressional Gold Medal USS Constitution
		The USS Constitution has now graced the United States with her service for more than two hundred years.
		Authorized by Congress in 1794, built in 1797, and launched in 1798, Constitution saw action in one undeclared war and two official wars and was a powerful arm of the United States military capable of carrying American firepower to distant parts of the globe.
		Finally, in 1842 the United States and Great Britain agreed to patrol the coast of Africa for suspected slavers.
	www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /USSConstitution.htm (9767 words)

	CHRONOLOGY
		1804 – September 6 – Captain Bainbridge, skipper of the scuttled USS Philadelphia, and ship’s doctor Dr. Cowdery and a detachment of prisoners find 13 bodies washed ashore Tripoli harbor, three identified as officers, which are buried 100 yards south of the harbor near the castle.
		Somers’ brother-in-law, Wimmiam Jonas Keen pays prize money to officers and men for the capture of Brig Nomenato Crucifisso.
		as Richard Somers Day in the State of New Jersey and AR No. 121 – requesting the federal government negotiate with Libya for the repatriation of Richard Somers and the crew of the USS Intrepid.
	www.richardsomers.org /rs-09.htm (1450 words)

	Lieutenant Commander Edwin Jesse De Haven (DeHaven), USN (1819—1965)
		Born in Pennsylvania in 1819, Edwin Jesse De Haven was appointed acting midshipman at the age of ten, and five years later was advanced to passed midshipman.
		In the mid-1840s, De Haven assumed command of USS Peacock and proceed to the waters of the North Pacific, surveying the coasts of North America and in the Puget Sound area.
		On 18 July 1840, Peacock was wrecked in the treacherous waters at the entrance of the Columbia River, her crew being rescued by USS Oregon.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussdehaven/namesake469.html (345 words)

	USS Constitution
		In this battle of only half an hour the United States "rose to the rank of a first-class power"; the country was fired with fresh confidence and courage; and union among the States was greatly strengthened.
		Enroute to New York, she received confirmation of the ratification of peace terms and on 15 May arrived, confident in her success as protector of freedom of the seas.
		A public grateful for her protective services once again rescued her from imminent destruction in 1905 and she was thereafter partially restored for use as a national museum.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/constitution_frigate.html (10010 words)

	Whatever Happened?
		USS AMBERJACK (SS-219), was presumed lost on 3-22-43.
		USS BALTIMORE in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
		USS ARGONAUT (SM1), and his country, in action with the enemy on 1-11-43.
	members.cox.net /cpopina/whathapp.htm (5200 words)

	Amazon.com: A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers: Books: Buckner F. Melton Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Somers, of course, was not wholly a typical man-of-war on the voyage in question, and that was perhaps a vital element in the background to the mutiny (or whatever it was) and its aftermath.
		The U.S.S. Somers, one of the last sailing vessles to be commissioned by the navy, was on a routine training cruise when a near mutiny broke out, resulting in the hanging of three of her crew.
		It's important to remember that the Somers' commander was a politically-connected rising star who was all too aware of the consequences of hanging a cabinet secretary's son, but nevertheless felt his actions were necessary.
	www.amazon.com /Hanging-Offense-Strange-Affair-Warship/dp/0743232836 (2693 words)

	Brooklyn Navy Yard
		Dry Dock #1 the third granite dry dock in the country is built, marking the first use of a steam-powered pile driver in the United States.
		The Yard is the site of the trial of attempted mutiny on board the USS Somers, an incident on which Herman Melville's Billy Budd is loosely based.
		The USS Monitor is outfitted and commissioned (having been built, clad and launched at the Continental Shipyard in Greenpoint) prior to the famous "Battle at Hampton Roads" against the CSS Virginia (ex-Merrimac).
	www.brooklynnavyyard.org /history.html (774 words)

	Ddg 72 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USS Mahan (DDG-72) - USS Mahan (DDG-72) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
		She is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia and part of the U. 72 equal temperament - In music, 72 equal temperament, called 72-tet, 72-edo, or 72-et, is the scale derived by dividing the octave into twelfth-tones, or in other words 72 equally large steps.
		Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86) USS Skate (SS-305, SSN-578) USS Skipjack (SSN-585) USS Snook (SSN-592) USS Solomons (CVE-67) USS Somers (1813, 1842, 1898, DD-301, DD-381, DDG-34) USS South Carolina...
	de3.markleeforcontroller.com /ddg72.html (589 words)

	Dates in American Naval History: December [Archive] - Infantrymen's Military Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1842 - Execution of three crewmembers of USS Somers for mutiny; Midshipman Philip Spencer, Boatswain Samuel Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small.
		Destroyers USS Hull, USS Monaghan and USS Spence sink, while 21 other ships are damaged.
		Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).
	www.goinfantry.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-5982.html (2464 words)

	1 Dec History: This Date
		Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, is hanged for mutiny from the yardarm of the USS.
		Somers, a small brig of war at sea in West Indian waters.
		He was convicted at a court-martial held on the ship of conspiring to organize a mutiny, murder the officers, and convert the captured ship into a pirate vessel.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4dec/h4dec01.html (11444 words)

	This Day In Military History... - Page 89 - Armchair General Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TU 4.1.6, screening ON 28, attacks sound contacts; destroyer USS Bernadou carries out five depth charge attacks and fires at what was most likely German submarine U-67, forcing her to submerge; USS DuPont carries out three depth charge attacks; USS MacLeish and USS Sampson one apiece.
		USS Lea escorts Salinas (which will reach port under her own power); they will be joined en route by Coast Guard cutter USCG Campbell and ocean going tug Cherokee.
		The loss of USS Reuben James, the first U.S. naval vessel to be lost to enemy action in World War II, proves a temporary detriment to Navy recruiting efforts.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/showthread.php?p=584960 (7946 words)

	Hobart and William Smith Colleges :: Remarkable Alum:
		In 1842 he was accused of mutiny on his ship, the USS Somers.
		It was reported that he made an off-hand remark about seizing command of the vessel; in addition he kept a diary in Greek that was believed to have consisted of a plan of mutiny and secrets concerning the ship.
		Both the brig Somers and Spencer influenced Herman Mellville's novel Billy Budd.
	www.hws.edu /alumni/remarkable/displaynotablealum.asp?notablealumid=34 (205 words)

	Mutiny - CFCforums - SOH Forums Archive
		Captain McKay divided his crew into watches as was the usual custom, and they were stationed about the ship in man-of-war fashion and he laid down the rules in an orderly way that would govern the conduct expected from each man over the course of the voyage.
		On a night during his turn as officer of the watch, Spencer planned to kill the officers and turn the Somers into a pirate ship operating out of the Isle of Pines off Cuba.
		On December 1, 1842 the trio was hanged and buried at sea.
	www.cfcforums.com /showthread.php?t=412 (5469 words)

	The Galveston County Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When participants in the 2006 Regata de Amigos approach the finish line at Veracruz, Mexico, they’ll be sailing over the bones of an unlucky ship that forged a place for herself in the history of the U.S. Navy and in world literature.
		What’s left of the USS Somers lies beneath the waters off Mexico’s largest port.
		It’s a good bet that this year’s racers will get a much warmer welcome to that historic, beautiful and vibrant city than was accorded the Somers.
	news.galvestondailynews.com /story.lasso?WCD=84594 (121 words)

	Annapolis
		On September 13, 1842, the American Brig Somers set sail from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on one of the most significant cruises in American naval history.
		Naval support to midshipmen began in 1851, six years after the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy, when the USS PREBLE arrived at what was then, Fort Severn, for duty as the first training ship.
		In 1943, 123 additional acres of land were purchased to improve undesirable living conditions for the 800 men living aboard the USS REINA MERCEDES and USS CUMBERLAND, part of the Naval Barracks Command responsible for the enlisted men assigned to the Naval Academy.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/annapolis.htm (1431 words)

	Ddg 51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) - USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke, USN (1901-1996), is the lead ship of the her class of guided missile destroyers.
		She was laid down by GD Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine on 6 December 1988, launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs.
		USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), the lead ship of her class of Aegis guided missile...
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	Pennsylvania Marine Corps League Detachments
		The year 1842 also saw ship detachments of Leathernecks become engaged in the suppression of slave trading which had sprung up along the western coast of Africa.
		An incipient mutiny aboard the USS Congress was foiled with the assistance of the ship's Marine Guard, 1800.
		A threatened mutiny aboard the USS Somers was put down with the aid of Marine SGT Michael H. Garty, 1942.
	www.pamcleague.org /mclpaHIS.htm (5961 words)

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