03500cam a2200505 i 4500 1168603347 TxAuBib 20240319120000.0 210315s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250137548 paperback $6.99 1250137543 paperback $6.99 (OCoLC)1242990029 TxAuBib rda Tougias, Michael J, author. The finest hours [Book] : the true story of a heroic sea rescue / Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman ; illustrations by Mark Edward Geyer. First edition. New York : Christy Ottaviano Books/ Henry Holt and Company, 2021. ©2021. 95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier True rescue series "An illustrated chapter book adaptation The finest hours: the true story of the U.S. Coast Guard's most daring sea rescue"--Cover. Introduction to ships, captains, crew, and rescuers -- The Pendleton -- Chatham Lifeboat Station -- The decision -- Always ready -- Bernie and his crew -- The 36500 -- The Chatham bar -- Chatham mobilizes -- "He came to the surface floating" -- Losing all hope : onboard the Pendleton stern -- It's a ghost ship -- A beam of light -- Mission impossible -- Tiny Myers -- Thirty-six men in a 36-foot boat -- Cheers in Chatham -- Back at Chatham Station -- After the storm -- The Gold Lifesaving Medal. 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. In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying predicament. Built with "dirty steel," and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantic's mercy. The Finest Hours is the true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships. Coast Guard cutters raced to the aid of those on the Fort Mercer, and when it became apparent that the halves of the Pendleton were in danger of capsizing, the Guard sent out two thirty-six-foot lifeboats as well. These wooden boats, manned by only four seamen, were dwarfed by the enormous seventy-foot seas. As the tiny rescue vessels set out from the coast of Cape Cod, the men aboard were all fully aware that they were embarking on what could easily become a suicide mission. Ages 6-9. Henry Holt and Company. 20240319. Pendleton (Tanker.) CG36500 (Lifeboat.) Fort Mercer (Tanker.) Shipwrecks Massachusetts Chatham History. Shipwrecks History. Shipwreck survival History. Search and rescue operations. Creative nonfiction. Chatham (Mass) History. Junior literature. Essais fictionnels. Sherman, Casey, 1969-, author. Geyer, Mark, illustrator. The finest hours (Text). True rescue series. RV8