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100 1 _aTougias, Mike,
_d1955-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFinest hours :
_bthe true story of the U.S. Coast Guard's most daring sea rescue /
_cMichael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman.
260 _aNew York :
_bScribner
_c2015
300 _a204 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_bphotographs ;
_c21 cm
505 0 _aChatham Lifeboat Station -- The Pendleton -- The Fort Mercer -- "It can't be true" -- "You got to take the 36500 out" -- Blowout at Chatham Bar -- Chatham mobilizes -- "He came to the surface floating" -- Losing all hope: on board the Pendleton stern -- All but one: the rescue of the Pendleton stern -- Thirty-six men in a thirty-six-foot boat -- Pandemonium in Chatham -- The Mercer's bow capsizes -- A maneuver for the ages -- Tuesday at Chatham Station -- Thirteen men still on board -- Search of the Pendleton bow -- The inquiry -- Being labeled a hero can be a burden -- Tanker trouble -- Beyond the rescue -- The restoration -- Epilogue: They were young once.
520 _aDocuments the 1952 Coast Guard mission to save the crews of two oil tankers that were torn in half by the force of one of New England's worst nor'easters.
610 2 0 _aPendleton (Tanker)
610 2 0 _aFort Mercer (Tanker)
610 2 0 _aCG36500 (Lifeboat)
610 2 7 _aCG36500 (Lifeboat)
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610 2 7 _aPendleton (Tanker)
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650 0 _aMassachusetts Chatham History.
_zMassachusetts
_zChatham
_xHistory.
_922340
650 0 _aShipwreck survival
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
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_97238
650 7 _aShipwrecks.
_2fast
651 7 _aMassachusetts
_zChatham.
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655 7 _919892
_aHistory.
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700 1 _aSherman, Casey,
_d1969-
_eauthor.
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