Curse of the Somers: Billy Budd's Ghost Ship

Mutiny and hangings, court martial and controversy, ghosts and a haunted ship, and a Martyred Hero of Chi Psi. This is the true story that inspired Herman Melville's novel, "Billy Budd", and that caused the founding of the United States Naval Academy. Narrated by Peter Coyote. Join the Belcher Expedition in Veracruz, Mexico to discover the shipwreck of the U.S. Brig Somers, lost in 1846 during the Mexican War.