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Sailing the graveyard sea : (Record no. 64193)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field on1380464837
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2023012687
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781982185442
Qualifying information (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1982185449
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)on1380464837
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency YDX
-- BDX
-- OCLCF
-- ORX
-- OCLCO
-- HSA
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code n-us---
-- n-us-ny
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number E182
Item number .S588 2023
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 359/.00973
Edition number 23/eng/20230526
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Snow, Richard,
Dates associated with a name 1947-
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 138988
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Sailing the graveyard sea :
Remainder of title the deathly voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's only mutiny, and the trial that gripped the nation /
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Deathly voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's only mutiny, and the trial that gripped the nation
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First Scribner hardcover edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Scribner,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 287 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly 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 been hanged: 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 Mackenzie, had been the ringleader who encouraged the crew to seize the ship and become pirates, raping and pillaging their way across the old Spanish Main. And while the young man might have been a rebel fascinated by pirates, it soon became clear the order that condemned the three men had no legal basis. And worse, that perhaps a mutiny had never really 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 which put Mackenzie on trial for his life, and a storm of anti-Navy sentiment drew the attention of the leading writers of the day (Washington Irving thought Mackenzie a hero; James Fenimore Cooper damned him with a ferocity that still stings). But some good did come out of it: public disgust with Mackenzie's training cruise gave birth to Annapolis, the place that within a century, would produce the greatest navy the world had ever known. Vividly told and filled with tense action based on court martial transcripts, Snow's masterly account of this all-but-forgotten episode is naval history at its finest"--
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell,
Dates associated with a name 1803-1848.
9 (RLIN) 138992
Personal name Spencer, Philip,
Dates associated with a name 1824-1842.
9 (RLIN) 138993
Personal name Cromwell, Samuel,
Dates associated with a name -1842.
9 (RLIN) 138994
Personal name Small, Elijah,
Dates associated with a name -1842.
9 (RLIN) 138995
Personal name Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell,
Dates associated with a name 1803-1848
General subdivision Trials, litigation, etc.
9 (RLIN) 138997
610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Subordinate unit Navy
General subdivision History.
9 (RLIN) 138990
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Somers (Brig : 1842-1846)
9 (RLIN) 138991
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Subordinate unit Navy.
-- Court-martial (Mackenzie : 1843)
9 (RLIN) 138996
648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM
Chronological term 1842
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 139088
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Somers Mutiny, 1842.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Geographic subdivision New York (State)
-- New York.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Trials (Mutiny)
Geographic subdivision New York (State)
-- New York.
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term History
Source of term fast
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Snow, Richard, 1947-
Title Sailing the graveyard sea
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Scribner, 2023
International Standard Book Number 9781982185466
Record control number (DLC) 2023012688
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type F
Holdings
Lost status Collection code Current library Shelving location Full call number Barcode Number Koha item type
  Nonfiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 359 SNO 34480000603815 F