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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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12 April 2001