The Finest Hours Summary

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Desiree’ Brewer 3.6.16 The Finest Hours
The book The Finest Hours is a true story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s most daring sea rescue and a valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships. This book was written by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman. This book is full of scenes that will take your breath away such as boat capsizing, bows and sterns crashing into one another and men hurling themselves into the sea in their battle of survival.
In the winter of 1952, February 12, The Pendleton departed from Baton Rouge, Louisiana headed for Boston. Their captain, Captain John J. Fitzgerald Jr. was new to the USS Pendleton, and just had taken over command of the 503-foot, 10,448-ton, T2 tanker just a month earlier. The tanker was …show more content…
Later on another lifeboat went out to rescue the Pendleton. When they got there the men would jump off the tanker into the sea and the coast guard would pull them onto the lifeboat. When they got most of the men on the boat it was just barely floating on the waters because thirty-six men were crammed onto a thirty-six foot lifeboat. When they got back to the shore the city made them warm meals to eat, and made them new clothes to wear, and gave them places to sleep. As the people celebrated the Pendleton’s rescue of the stern, the survivors on the Fort Mercer’s bow were huddling together to get warm. Finally another lifeboat came out to rescue the crew members upon the Mercer’s hull, and when they made it back to the shore everyone helped them out also. The rescue of the Pendleton and Mercer were two of the largest rescues performed by the Coast Guards in history. Not every man survived in this terrible storm, but it was a miracle that the ones who did survive got to go home and tell the tales of what had

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