Download The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue AudioBook Free
In the wintertime of 1952, New Britain was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the elements wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped area of peril, placing the stage for one of the most heroic rescue testimonies ever lived. On February 18, as the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, were in the same horrifying predicament. Built with "dirty material," and not prepared to tolerate such ferocious seas, both tankers separated in two, departing the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantic's mercy. The Finest Time is the gripping, true story of the valiant try to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of both ships. The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking displays, as watercraft capsize, bows and sterns crash into one another, and men hurl themselves in to the raging sea in a terrifying battle for survival. Not all of the 84 men captured at sea in the midst of that brutal storm survived, but taking into consideration the odds, from the miracle - and a testament with their bravery - that any by any means came home to share with their tales.
