The finest hours : the true story of the U.S. Coast Guard's most daring sea rescue
Tougias,Michael
Books, Manuscripts
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 the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. Two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer found themselves in the same horrifying predicament - built with dirty steel and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving dozens of men on board utterly at the Altantic's mercy.
Main title:
The finest hours : the true story of the U.S. Coast Guard's most daring sea rescue / Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
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Imprint:
New York Pocket Books 2009
Collation:
311 pages 19 cm.
ISBN:
9781501127175 (pbk)
Dewey class:
910.916
Language:
English
BRN:
1913873