ADVENTURE UNLIMITED - My Twenty Years of experience in the United States Coast Guard by Waters, Harold

Prentice-Hall, NY, 1955. US first edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, VG/VG condition, ( several corners reinforced with clear tape - now in clear mylar cover) 265 pages, illustrated.--------------------------------Harold Waters was looking for adventure when he joined the Coast Guard — and he found plenty of it in his more than twenty thrilling years of service. You will follow his dramatic experiences, which started with his first sea duty riding herd over drifting icebergs in the chill waters off the western coast of Greenland. There you will see a gigantic mountain of ice crumbling to destruction 'as it meets the "cold wall" where the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream meet.You will be present at some of the most tragic modern disasters caused by the sea, weather, and man's folly . . . the futile attempt to save the crew of the submarine S-4, buried alive beneath the waters of Province-town Harbor . . . the pathetic mission of mercy following one of Florida's worst hurricanes which trapped five hundred C.C.C. workers . . . the grim salvage of human wreckage from the British steamer V estris.You will share the excitement of daring rescues in perilous and storm-wracked waters. A tug founders during a raging gale south of the Diamond Shoals Lightship, and the Coast Guard rushes to the scene. A three-masted schooner runs aground in a dense fog, and the crew is brought to safety by colorful "sand-pounders," descendants of buccaneers.-------------------------------------And there are comic tales for you to enjoy of exciting night chases after lawless rumrunners during the flamboyant era of Prohibition.Harold Waters brings you his adventurous career in full, introduces you to such colorful characters as revolutionists in Cuba, and Russian officials aboard Soviet freighters. He vividly shows you the gallantry and courage of the Coast Guard in the South Pacific during World War II.