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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.

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12 April 2001