4b_0016_chsb
Wreck of the Somerset
Date: 1886
Photographer: Unknown
Provincetown, MA
9" x 7"
CHS Image Collection, Objects, Box 11, Folder 6
Inscription on verso reads:
"'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 one reflection in the tide.'
Longfellow
This photograph gives a view of the Somerset as she was exposed by the shifting sands in the winter of 1886 on the beach north of Provincetown, Cape Cod, where she was wrecked Nov. 3, 1778. She has now been buried again for many years."
4b_0016_chsb
Wreck of the Somerset
Date: 1886
Photographer: Unknown
Provincetown, MA
9" x 7"
CHS Image Collection, Objects, Box 11, Folder 6
Inscription on verso reads:
"'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 one reflection in the tide.'
Longfellow
This photograph gives a view of the Somerset as she was exposed by the shifting sands in the winter of 1886 on the beach north of Provincetown, Cape Cod, where she was wrecked Nov. 3, 1778. She has now been buried again for many years."