The Finest Hours : The True Story of the U. S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue Paperback - 2010
by Casey Sherman; Michael J. Tougias
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- Title The Finest Hours : The True Story of the U. S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
- Author Casey Sherman; Michael J. Tougias
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2010
- Features Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1416567224I5N00
- ISBN 9781416567226 / 1416567224
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 6.7 x 0.55 in (21.44 x 17.02 x 1.40 cm)
- Reading level 1140
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Cultural Region: New England
- Library of Congress subjects History, Shipwrecks
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008024259
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.916
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Summary
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal noreaster 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," and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantics mercy. The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships.
The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking scenes, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into one another, and men hurl themselves into the raging sea in their terrifying battle for survival.
Not all of the eighty-four men caught at sea in the midst of that brutal storm survived, but considering the odds, its a miracleand a testament to their braverythat any came home to tell their tales at all.
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," and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantics mercy. The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships.
The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking scenes, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into one another, and men hurl themselves into the raging sea in their terrifying battle for survival.
Not all of the eighty-four men caught at sea in the midst of that brutal storm survived, but considering the odds, its a miracleand a testament to their braverythat any came home to tell their tales at all.
