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The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod : The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story - Theresa Mitchell Barbo

The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story

By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo, W. Russell Webster, Thad Allen (Foreword by), John "Jack" Downey

eBook | 10 September 2010

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A first-hand account and fascinating new details of the 1952 rescue of the SS Pendleton, the true story behind the film The Finest Hours.
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.) recount the historic, heroic rescue of thirty-two merchant mariners from the sinking Pendleton by four young Coast Guardsmen aboard the 36-foot motor lifeboat CG 36500. A foreword by former Commandant Admiral Thad Allen (Ret.) and an essay by Master Chief John "Jack" Downey (Ret.), a veteran of thousands of modern-day small boat rescues, round out the special third edition of this classic work on Coast Guard history.

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