ISBN: 161423020X 9781614230205

Category: History / Military / United States

Page count: 179

<b>A first-hand account and fascinating new details of the 1952 rescue of the <i>SS Pendleton</i>, the true story behind the film <i>The Finest Hours</i>.</b><br><br>On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor’easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the <i>Pendleton</i> and the <i>Fort Mercer</i>. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) recount the historic, heroic rescue of thirty-two merchant mariners from the sinking <i>Pendleton</i> by four young Coast Guardsmen aboard the 36-foot motor lifeboat <i>CG 36500</i>. A foreword by former Commandant Admiral Thad Allen (Ret.) and an essay by Master Chief John “Jack” Downey (Ret.), a veteran of thousands of modern-day small boat rescues, round out the special third edition of this classic work on Coast Guard history.