The Pendleton Disaster off Cape COD: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History

Theresa Mitchell Barbo,W. Russell Webster

The Pendleton Disaster off Cape COD: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History
Format
Paperback
Publisher
History Press
Country
Published
3 September 2010
Pages
159
ISBN
9781609490508

The Pendleton Disaster off Cape COD: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History

Theresa Mitchell Barbo,W. Russell Webster

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 CG36500. 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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