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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue

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In the winter of 1952, New England used to be 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, setting the stage for some of the heroic rescue stories ever lived.

In the early hours of Monday, February 18, even as the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying catch 22 situation. Built with “dirty steel,” and not prepared to resist such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly on the Atlantic’s mercy. The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships.

The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking scenes, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into one every other, and men hurl themselves into the raging sea in their terrifying battle for survival.

Not all the eighty-four men caught at sea in the middle of that brutal storm survived, but taking into account the odds, it’s a miracle—and a testament to their bravery—that any came home to tell their tales at all.

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