Captain Mackenzie was disinclined to take the matter seriously, but instructed Gansevoort to watch Spencer and the crew for evidence of confirmation. Heiskill and first lieutenant Guert Gansevoort. On 26 November, Wales notified Captain Mackenzie of the plan through his chain of command via purser H.M. Seaman Elisha Small was involved in the conversation, and Wales was threatened with death if he revealed Spencer's plan. Wales of a planned mutiny by approximately 20 of Somers crew, who intended to use the ship for piracy from the Isle of Pines. Spencer, allegedly told purser's steward J.W. On 25 November 1842, during the passage to the West Indies, Midshipman Philip Spencer, the son of Secretary of War John C. This Lithograph, published circa 1843, shows the mutineers hanging under the US flag. Mackenzie headed for the Virgin Islands hoping to meet Vandalia at St. On this voyage, Somers was acting as an experimental schoolship for naval apprentices.Īfter calls at Madeira, Tenerife, and Praia, looking for Vandalia, Somers arrived at Monrovia, Liberia on 10 November and learned that the frigate had already sailed for home. After a shakedown cruise in June–July to Puerto Rico and back, the new brig sailed out of New York harbor on 13 September 1842 bound for the Atlantic coast of Africa with dispatches for frigate Vandalia.
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