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

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.

Author: Theresa Mitchell Barbo, Rusell Webster, W. Russell Webster
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781540205124
ISBN10: 1540205126
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,
- Travel | General
- Nature | Natural Disasters

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