The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived.In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying predicament. Built with "dirty steel...

By Michael J. Tougias
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (April 13, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416567224
ISBN-13: 978-1416567226
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 59948
Format: PDF Text TXT book

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My dad, Fred Brown, was a survivor of the SS Pendleton. I was anxious to read this book to compare it to the stories my dad repeatedly told over the years. I was surprised to find accurate references to an unfortunate incident which claimed the lif

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