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Sailing the Graveyard Sea (the Voyage Of the Somers)- Paperback
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- ISBN
- 9781982185459
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982185457
ISBN-13
9781982185459
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11065329877
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sailing the Graveyard Sea : The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U. S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Naval, United States / 19th Century, Maritime History & Piracy
Publication Year
2024
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.9 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"As engrossing as Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea . In Richard Snow's masterful hands, the collision between a brash, young, wannabe pirate and his rash, too-proud, unyielding commanding officer is a sea story for the ages. What happened on Somers during a routine U.S. Navy voyage in 1842 is as shocking and unsettling today as it was in its day." -- James Sullivan, author of Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
Synopsis
On December 14, 1842, the U.S. brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in New York Harbor at the end of a voyage intended to teach a group of teenage boys the rudiments of naval life and train them as "apprentice sailors." But this routine exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore claiming he had prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had already been hanged at sea, among them eighteen-year-old Philip Spencer-whose father was the secretary of war, John Spencer. According to Commander Mackenzie, Philip had been the ringleader who encouraged the crew to seize the ship and become pirates so that they might rape and pillage their way through the northern coast of South America and the Caribbean. Yet it soon became clear that the order that condemned the three men had no legal basis. And, worse, it appeared possible that no mutiny had actually occurred, and that the ship might instead have been seized by a creeping hysteria that ended in the sacrifice of three innocents. Months of accusations and counteraccusations were followed by a highly public court-martial that put Mackenzie on trial for his life-and led to the birth of Annapolis, the naval academy that within a century would produce the mightiest navy the world had ever known., A "compelling" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy--a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives--part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O'Brian. On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in the New York Harbor at the end of a voyage intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this routine exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore claiming he had prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had already been hanged at sea: Boatswain's Mate Samuel Cromwell, Seaman Elisha Small, and Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, whose father was the secretary of war, John Spencer. Eighteen-year-old Philip Spencer, according to his commander, had been the ringleader who encouraged the crew to seize the ship and become pirates so that they might rape and pillage their way through the northern coast of South America and the Caribbean. While the young man might have been fascinated by stories of pirates, it soon became clear the order that condemned the three men had no legal basis. And, worse, it appeared possible that no mutiny had actually occurred, and that the ship might instead have been seized by a creeping hysteria that ended in the sacrifice of three innocents. Months of accusations and counteraccusations were followed by a highly public court-martial that put Mackenzie on trial for his life, and a storm of anti-Navy sentiment drew the attention of such leading writers of the day as Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper. But some good did come out of it: public disgust with Mackenzie's hapless "training" gave birth to Annapolis, the distinguished naval academ that within a century would produce the mightiest navy the world had ever known. Vividly told and filled with tense shown directly in court-martial transcripts, Richard Snow's masterly account of this all-but-forgotten episode is "a hell of a yarn" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and naval history at its finest.
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