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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 82556
Loss of USS Somers, 8 December 1846
Line engraving from "The Illustrated London News",
23 January 1847, entitled "Wreck of the American Brig 'Somers'.",
depicting Somers on her beam ends after she capsized off
Vera Cruz, Mexico, while chasing a blockade runner.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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