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<p>In the tradition of <i>The Perfect Storm</i>, the riveting story of a</p> <p>legendary rescue at sea</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Bernie Webber was the least likely candidate to execute the greatest small-boat rescue in American history. The trouble-prone son of a Baptist minister, he’d been well on his way to becoming a juvenile delinquent. Until he went to sea. And then, on the night of February 18, 1952, in a raging blizzard off the coast of Cape Cod, Webber, now a young lifeboat coxswain with the U.S. Coast Guard, and his crew performed a miracle. Two big oil tankers had split in two in raging seas, and nothing—not a big cutter, not a sea plane, not a chopper—could reach them in time. Only Webber and his crew of three volunteers had a chance. He knew they would probably die on this mission. They were, after all, in an unassuming thirty-six-foot rescue boat that didn’t even have a name but for the “CG 36500” on its side. But he loved this boat—and he knew the inauspicious Coast Guard motto: “You have to go out. You don’t have to come back.” Webber took the CG 36500 out in sixty-foot waves and saved thirty lives. He and his men won the rarely bestowed Coast Guard Gold Medal for Valor

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Author

Robert R. Frump

Publisher

The Lyons Press; Globe Pequot; Lyons Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781599213378

Category

history

Subjects

History, Travel, Anthropology

Rating

4.6 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14