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    Commons has media related to USS Somers (1842). USS Somers National Park Service: Wreck exploration CASE of the Somers' MUTINY. DEFENCE of ALEXANDER...
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  • British in 1814. USS Somers (1842), was a brig launched in 1842 and sunk in 1846. The ship is known for the Somers Affair. USS Somers (TB-22), was a torpedo...
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    The Somers Affair was an incident involving the American brig USS Somers during a training missin in 1842 under Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848)...
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  • Philip Spencer (sailor) (category 1842 deaths)
    Philip Spencer (January 28, 1823 – December 1, 1842), a midshipman aboard USS Somers, was executed for mutiny without a court-martial, after being suspected...
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    Samuel Cromwell (category 1842 crimes in North America)
    Samuel Cromwell (died December 1, 1842) was a sailor and petty officer (boatswain's mate) aboard the brig USS Somers. Cromwell was feared by the young...
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  • crisis of their lives." In 1842, an incipient mutiny was quashed before it occurred on board the US Navy Brig USS Somers. This was the last of a number...
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    Elisha Small (category 1842 crimes in North America)
    before joining the United States Navy. In November 1842, while serving aboard the brig USS Somers, during the return home from a voyage to Liberia, suspicion...
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    USS Saratoga, a sloop-of-war, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Battle of Saratoga of the American Revolutionary War. Her...
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    Ships. The entry can be found here. Media related to USS Cumberland (ship, 1842) at Wikimedia Commons USS Cumberland Center at Hampton Roads Naval Museum 36°57′42″N...
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    officer, famous for his 1842 decision to execute three suspected mutineers aboard a ship under his command USS Somers in the Somers Mutiny. Mackenzie was...
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    Hurricane Center. Retrieved May 5, 2008. Tempest, Mark. "Sunday Ship History: USS Mount Hood (AE-11)". EagleSpeak. Retrieved October 6, 2017. "Horrible Accident...
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    Spencer, American founder of Chi Psi fraternity, midshipman aboard the USS Somers, hanged for mutiny. December 12 – Robert Haldane, British theologian (b...
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    The first USS Truxtun was a brig in the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore Thomas Truxtun, and was an active participant in the Mexican–American...
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  • – Philip Spencer, founder of Chi Psi fraternity and midshipman aboard USS Somers (born 1823) December 31 – George Cassedy, U.S. Representative from New...
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  • Clemson was serving as acting master on the brig Somers with Lt. Commander Raphael Semmes. The Somers had been dispatched for blockade duty in the Gulf...
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  • The Caine Mutiny (redirect from USS Caine)
    war, when the brig USS Somers capsized off Veracruz in a sudden squall while chasing a blockade runner. In November 1842, the Somers was the scene of the...
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    Alexander Slidell MacKenzie (category 1842 births)
    Slidell MacKenzie, USN (1842–1867) (MacKenzie Jr.) CASE of the Somers' MUTINY, DEFENCE of ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE, COMMANDER OF THE U.S. BRIG Somers,...
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  • and to lieutenant on 8 March 1837. In 1842 Gansevoort was serving as first lieutenant aboard the brig Somers, under the command of Alexander Slidell...
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    The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the...
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    evening of 3 September under the command of Richard Somers, but she exploded prematurely, killing Somers and his entire crew of thirteen volunteers. Constellation...
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    US Navy's first screw-propelled steamer, USS Princeton, in 1843. On 26 and 27 November 1842, aboard USS Somers in the African Squadron, commander Alexander...
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    United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842). During the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865, he commanded USS San Jacinto during the Trent Affair in...
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    early service in USS Pennsylvania, Mexican–American War operations off Veracruz aboard USS Somers, a tour off South America in USS Germantown, an assignment...
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    USS Missouri was begun at New York Navy Yard in 1840 by shipbuilder Samuel Hartt. She was launched 7 January 1841 and commissioned very early in 1842...
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    USS Princeton was a screw steam warship of the United States Navy. Commanded by Captain Robert F. Stockton, Princeton was launched on September 5, 1843...
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    USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for...
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    deserted USS St. Louis to fight for Peruvian independence. The ship log confirms Melville's narrative, Chase returned to the frigate on 29 May 1842 and was...
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  • HMAS Havoc USS Hillary Clinton – aircraft carrier HMAS Ipswich USS Kandahar USS Kennebunkport USS Leyte Gulf HMAS Moreton Bay KRI Nuku USS Providence...
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    USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...
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    general 'steamer' class. In 1842 it consisted of USS Fulton (1837) of 4 guns, commissioned in 1837, and USS Union (1842) (with a horizontal submerged...
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