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Author : B. B. Schofield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rescue Ships written by B. B. Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Rescue Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Gall
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 1324019263
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Big Ship Rescue! written by Chris Gall and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Gall gives boat books a fresh coat of paint in a bright story of tugboats, tools, and teamwork. Oh no! The Goliath has wrecked in a storm. First the crew has to be rescued, then the ship has to be made safe, refloated, and winched off the rocks. It’s a good thing Salvage Master Miley is on the scene with her tugboat, the Mighty Mackerel. It’s a tough job, but with the tug’s powerful engines, propellers, towlines, and winches, Miley and her salvage team have what it takes to bring Goliath back to port. With lively storytelling, engaging artwork, and plenty of mechanical detail, acclaimed author/illustrator Chris Gall sails through a brave and stormy tale of nautical machinery and collaboration that’s just right for little engineers.
Author : Christos Papoutsy
Publisher : Peter E. Randall Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ships of Mercy written by Christos Papoutsy and published by Peter E. Randall Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ships of Mercy" reveals the true heroes of Smyrna, forgotten by history. It is based on more than ten years of research by Christos Papoutsy, who traveled around the globe to document the rescue of hundreds of thousands of Greek refugees on the Smyrna quay in September 1922.
Author : Louise Borden
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781857939330
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)
Download or read book The Little Ships written by Louise Borden and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes of a fisherman's daughter, this is the story of how, in May 1940, an 'armada' of ordinary people in their own boats joined the Royal Navy to help rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk
Author : Theresa Mitchell Barbo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423020X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod written by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account and fascinating new details of the 1952 rescue of the SS Pendleton, the true story behind the film The Finest Hours. 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 CG 36500. 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.
Author : Robert Frump
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216477
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Two Tankers Down written by Robert Frump and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-08-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the greatest small-boat rescue in American history.
Author : Kate Riggs
Publisher : Seedlings
ISBN 13 : 9781608185832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Rescue Boats written by Kate Riggs and published by Seedlings. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kindergarten-level introduction to rescue boats, covering their divers, equipment, role in rescuing, and such defining features as their lights.
Author : B.B. Schofield
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1036102696
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Rescue Ships and the Convoys written by B.B. Schofield and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoy’s position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross tons, mostly from coastal trade. These ‘Rescue Ships’, commanded and manned by Merchant Navy personnel, carried medical teams, and life-saving equipment including operating theaters, hospital beds, ‘Carley’ floats, and hoists. Undeterred either by either enemy action or atrocious weather conditions, these vessels accompanied close to 800 convoys and saved 4,194 lives from ships sunk in the North Atlantic and with the Arctic convoys. During their service, seven Rescue Ships were lost. This is a story packed with suspense, danger, achievement and tragedy. As the author, Vice Admiral Schofield, who was closely involved in the establishment of the fleet, writes, it is a record ‘of great humanitarian endeavour, of superb acts of courage, of a display of seamanship of the highest order, of a devotion to duty by medical officers under the most arduous conditions imaginable, of great deeds by men of the Merchant Navy in little ships on voyages they were never designed to undertake.’
Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150110683X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Finest Hours written by Michael J. Tougias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lori Dittmer
Publisher : Creative Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781628326321
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Rescue Boats written by Lori Dittmer and published by Creative Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vanlike appearance of ambulances to the spinning rotor blades of helicopters, vehicles of all forms have long been used in emergency situations. Appealing to future paramedics, pilots, captains, drivers, and crew, this new series explores the continued use of six Amazing Rescue Vehicles. Detailed photos and STEM-appropriate text examine the featured machine's parts, functions, variations, and worksites. Each book also includes a labeled pictorial diagram of the vehicle. A basic exploration of the parts, equipment, and variations of rescue boats, the nautical rescue vehicles. Also included is a pictorial diagram of the important rescue vehicle and its equipment.
Author : Peter Hernon
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062433881
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book The Great Rescue written by Peter Hernon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in commemoration of the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe—a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time. When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, the new German luxury ocean liner SS Vaterland was interned in New York Harbor, where it remained docked for nearly three years—until the United States officially entered the fight to turn the tide of the war. Seized by authorities for the U.S. Navy once war was declared in April 2017, the liner was renamed the USS Leviathan by President Woodrow Wilson, and converted into an armed troop carrier that transported thousands of American Expeditionary Forces to the battlefields of France. For German U-Boats hunting Allied ships in the treacherous waters of the Atlantic, no target was as prized as the Leviathan, carrying more than 10,000 Doughboys per crossing. But the Germans were not the only deadly force threatening the ship and its passengers. In 1918, a devastating influenza pandemic—the Spanish flu—spread throughout the globe, predominantly striking healthy young adults, including soldiers. Peter Hernon tells the ship’s story across multiple voyages and through the experiences of a diverse cast of participants, including the ship’s captain, Henry Bryan; General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force; Congressman Royal Johnson, who voted against the war but enlisted once the resolution passed; Freddie Stowers, a young black South Carolinian whose heroism was ignored because of his race; Irvin Cobb, a star war reporter for the Saturday Evening Post; and Elizabeth Weaver, an army nurse who saw the war’s horrors firsthand; as well as a host of famous supporting characters, including a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Thoroughly researched, dramatic, and fast-paced, The Great Rescue is a unique look at the Great War and the diverse lives it touched.
Author : Theresa Mitchell Barbo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845480
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew written by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Nickerson and his faithful lab, Sinbad, wake early one snowy Cape Cod morning, ready for winter fun. Meanwhile, miles away in the ocean, the crew of a cargo tanker ship called the "Pendleton" is in serious trouble. The waves and wind of a raging nor'easter rip the tanker in two, leaving the people to cling for their lives in the wicked, cold storm. There's no time to waste--the Coast Guard, including Jack's friend Bernie Webber, leave Chatham Harbor in search of the "Pendleton" crew. They don't yet know that Jack and Sinbad have snuck aboard the rescue boat as stowaways. Join the young duo in the front-row seat for the greatest small-boat rescue in American history.
Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : Cutter Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0578012901
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Bloodstained Sea written by Michael G. Walling and published by Cutter Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through eyewitness accounts based on hundreds of interviews with crew members; personal diaries, notes, and letters; and each cutter's logbooks and patrol reports Walling plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing missions of the Second World War. Told largely in the voices of the men who lived it, this unforgettable tale is peppered with humorous and ironic anecdotes about life aboard ship during wartime. You'll meet the liberty-craving crew members who painted their entire ship in less than an hour; the ship's mascot who became canine-non-grata in Greenland; and the crew whose vessel was mistaken for the German battleship Bismarck and attacked by the Royal Navy. Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to vibrant and pulsing life.
Author : Chris L. Demarest
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689851612
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Mayday! Mayday! written by Chris L. Demarest and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirty-foot yacht, adrift well out to sea, sends, "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Please respond to our plea!" Hearing this call for help, the United States Coast Guard leaps into action. A team of four highly trained rescue specialists head out in an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter. Battling fierce conditions, the Coast Guard team finally locates the disabled boat, rescues the crew, treats injured passengers, and carries them back to safety. Complemented by dramatic, striking illustrations, Chris L. Demarest's text brings into vivid focus one of the many important jobs performed by the U.S. Coast Guard. A detailed author's note provides additional information about the search-and-rescue process, making this a terrific book for any school or home library.
Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147674663X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Rescue of the Bounty written by Michael J. Tougias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An all-new harrowing maritime tale of the sinking and rescue efforts surrounding the HMS Bounty--the actual replica used in the 1962 remake of the 1935 classic Mutiny on the Bounty--which sank during Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Tuesday, October 24, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail the HMS Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge was well aware that a hurricane was forecast to come up the Eastern seaboard. He explained to his crew of fifteen that the ship would fare better at sea than at port, and that he thought he could sail "around the hurricane." He told the crew that anyone who did not want to come on the voyage could leave the ship and there would be no hard feelings. No one took the captain up on his offer. Four days into the voyage, superstorm Sandy made an almost direct hit on the Bounty. The vessel's pumps could not keep up with the incoming water and a few hours later, in the dark of night, the ship overturned, sending the crew tumbling into the ocean filled with crashing thirty-foot waves. The Coast Guard launched one of most complex and massive rescues in its history, flying two Jayhawk helicopter crews into the hurricane and lowering rescue swimmers into the raging ocean again and again despite the dangers. Ultimately fourteen crew members were rescued; tragically, two members did not survive. Dripping with suspense and vivid high-stakes drama, Rescue of the Bounty is an unforgettable tale about the brutality of nature and the human will to survive"--
Author : Tristram Korten
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524797898
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Into the Storm written by Tristram Korten and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best.”—Lee Child The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions In late September 2015, Hurricane Joaquin swept past the Bahamas and swallowed a pair of cargo vessels in its destructive path: El Faro, a 790-foot American behemoth with a crew of thirty-three, and the Minouche, a 230-foot freighter with a dozen sailors aboard. From the parallel stories of these ships and their final journeys, Tristram Korten weaves a remarkable tale of two veteran sea captains from very different worlds, the harrowing ordeals of their desperate crews, and the Coast Guard’s extraordinary battle against a storm that defied prediction. When the Coast Guard received word from Captain Renelo Gelera that the Minouche was taking on water on the night of October 1, the servicemen on duty helicoptered through Joaquin to the sinking ship. Rescue swimmer Ben Cournia dropped into the sea—in the middle of a raging tropical cyclone, in the dark—and churned through the monstrous swells, loading survivors into a rescue basket dangling from the helicopter as its pilot struggled against the tempest. With pulsating narrative skill in the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Jon Krakauer, Korten recounts the heroic efforts by Cournia and his fellow guardsmen to haul the Minouche’s crew to safety. Tragically, things would not go as well for Captain Michael Davidson and El Faro. Despite exhaustive searching by her would-be rescuers, the loss of the vessel became the largest U.S. maritime disaster in decades. As Korten narrates the ships’ fates, with insights drawn from insider access to crew members, Coast Guard teams, and their families, he delivers a moving and propulsive story of men in peril, the international brotherhood of mariners, and the breathtaking power of nature. Praise for Into the Storm “The story [Tristram] Korten tells is impressively multifaceted, exploring everything from timely issues such as climate change to timeless themes such as man’s struggle against the ocean’s fury.”—Miami New Times “Into the Storm is a triumph of reporting and you-are-there writing that becomes a deeper tale—with more implications about our own lives—with every chapter.”—Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers
