The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod:: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History
The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History
Author: Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Rusell Webster Series: Disaster
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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.
About the Author
Theresa M. Barbo is Director of the Cape Wildlife Center, a program of the Humane Society of the United States. She is also the author of historical nonfiction books and is a former award-winning broadcast journalist, newsmagazine history editor and noted public lecturer. She holds bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and has studied executive integral leadership at the University of Notre Dame.
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