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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 1117
Loss of USS Somers, 8 December 1846
Lithograph by A. Mayer, Paris, depicting a whaleboat crew from
the French Navy brig le Mercure rescuing survivors of
the capsized Somers, off Vera Cruz, Mexico. Somers
is visible in the right background, on her beam ends.
Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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