By Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
The real tale of a major catastrophe and heroic rescue at sea advised via masterful storytellers.
In the wintry weather of 1952, New England used to be battered through the main brutal nor'easter in years. because the climate wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic grew to become a wind-whipped area of peril.
In the early hours of Monday, February 18, whereas the typhoon raged, oil tankers, the Pendleton and the citadel Mercer, discovered themselves within the related scary hindrance. equipped with "dirty steel," and never ready to resist such ferocious seas, either tankers break up in , leaving the handfuls of fellows on board completely on the Atlantic's mercy.
The best Hours is the gripping, precise tale of the valiant try to rescue the souls huddling contained in the damaged halves of the 2 ships. Coast defend cutters raced to assistance from these at the castle Mercer, and whilst it grew to become obvious that the halves of the Pendleton have been at risk of capsizing, the defend despatched out thirty-six-foot lifeboats besides. those wood boats, manned through purely 4 seamen, have been dwarfed by means of the big seventy-foot seas. because the tiny rescue vessels set out from the coast of Cape Cod, the boys aboard have been all absolutely conscious that they have been embarking on what may simply develop into a suicide mission.
The spellbinding story is overflowing with breathtaking scenes that sear themselves into the mind's eye, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into each other, and males hurl themselves into the raging sea of their terrifying conflict for survival.
Not the entire eighty-four males stuck at sea in the middle of that brutal typhoon survived, yet contemplating the chances, it's a miracle—and a testomony to their bravery—that any got here domestic to inform their stories at all.
Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman have seamlessly woven jointly their wide learn and firsthand interviews to create an unforgettable story of heroism, triumph, and tragedy, one who really tells of the Coast Guard's most interesting hours.
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