Finest Hours

The True Story of the U. S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

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Michael J. Tougias, Sherman, Casey: Finest Hours (2009, Scribner)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2009 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-4165-6730-1
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The True story of a 2 oil tankers capsizing off the coast of Cape Cod during a hurricane. Then a team of coast-guardsmen have to save around 100 people off half an oil tanker , in a lifeboat, during a hurricane. Will they save the crew? Or will they capsize. The true story of the greatest sea rescue ever.

8 editions

Subjects

  • Lifeboats
  • Tankers
  • Shipwrecks
  • Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
  • Massachusetts, history, local