The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History

by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and W. Russell Webster

Book Overview

Get a first-hand account and fascinating new details of the story behind The Finest Hours, the film portraying the harrowing rescue of the SS Pendleton in 1952.

On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609490509
• ISBN13: 9781609490508
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"