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A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers

By Buckner Melton Jr. Jr.
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By Buckner Melton Jr. Jr.
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Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's greatest naval stories-yet few know the similar tale from America's own fledgling navy in the dying days of the Age of Sail, a tale of mutiny and death at sea on an American warship.

In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise for apprentice seamen, commanded by rising star Alexander Mackenzie. Somers was crammed with teenagers. Among them was Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, a disturbed youth and a son of the U.S. Secretary of War. ...