In his poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow described HMS Somersett on the night of April 18, 1775:
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Now HMS Somerset has risen again like a phantom, this time from a beach on Cape Cod, near where she sank on Nov. 2, 1778.
British warship Somerset resurfaces off Cape Cod
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