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On Dec. 1, 1842, the U.S. brig-of-war Somers was wallowing through the long mid-Atlantic rollers under balmy skies, four days' sail from the Virgin Islands. Converted into a training ship, the brig was on her way home from what had begun ten weeks earlier as a...
A sensation in its day, the confused, controversial Somers affair has never got much notice from historians. Author Van de Water, an interested party (his great-uncle was put in irons aboard the Somers), has briskly dusted off the archives to raise some Caine with the old mutiny.
He got no sympathy from the Somers' Queeg-like skipper. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U.S.N., 39, was vain and self-righteous; in 26 years at sea he had developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and...
The Somers affair was officially recorded as a mutiny (the only one in U.S. Naval annals), although a lot of people, including Author Van de Water, are convinced that no mutiny ever occurred. The case forced much-needed Navy reforms. Soon afterwards the U.S. Naval Academy was established at Annapolis...
Sir: Ho hum-don't men like the Rev. Carl McIntire . . . ever get tired panning Roman Catholicism? PATRICIA SOMERS Chicago