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The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue - True Rescue

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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. 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 Atlantic's mercy. The Finest Hours is the true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships. Coast Guard cutters raced to the aid of those on the Fort Mercer, and when it became apparent that the halves of the Pendleton were in danger of capsizing, the Guard sent out two thirty-six-foot lifeboats as well. These wooden boats, manned by only four seamen, were dwarfed by the enormous s

Book information

ISBN: 9781250137531
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Imprint: Christy Ottaviano Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 910.916346
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 95
Weight: 191g
Height: 199mm
Width: 6mm
Spine width: 18mm