SPENCER, Philip [~1820-1842] -- American sailor, mutineer
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Son of Secretary of War John Canfield Spencer, ¤
he was serving as Midshipman aboard the American training brig Somers
when a mutiny was discovered a-hatching and Somers,
found to be the head of it, was hung along with two co-conspirators
-- his paternal connection notwithstanding.
The incident was supposed to have been the model for Melville's Billy Budd. 
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- The mutiny aboard US brig Somers
- The Curse of the Somers: Philip Spencer...unsung hero? Recovery of the Somers; Somers Documentary Film Project
- HST 100: Philip Spencer and the Somers Madness
- 150 Years at the Naval Academy
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The Mutiny of the Somers
The North American review. / Volume 57, Issue 120
Publisher: University of Northern Iowa
Publication Date: July 1843
pp. 195-242 - Findings of the Court Martial in the Somers Incident Cases of Mutiny at Sea, pp. 133-136, in Southern literary messenger / 9:3, Mar 1843,
- Chi Psi Fraternity Spencer was its founder
- The mutiny aboard US brig Somers
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