Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 6, Page 156

Continuing the story of 'The Wreck of the Somerset'. The English frigate that lay buried beneath the sand was laid bare after a storm and became the talk of the town. The Somerset had trained its guns on the heights of Bunker Hill and terrorized the commerce of the colonies. The Somerset was in Boston Harbor the night of Paul Revere's ride according to the poet Longfellow.

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Boston (Mass.), British, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Captains, Essays, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown Advocate, Sailing ships, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, and Boxell, Althea