The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue

Title: The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue

Author: Michael J. Tougias


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(Jan 18, 2017 - Jan 25, 2017)
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In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, were in the same horrifying …more