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“2 Tugs Tow Stern of Broken Tanker.”
The New York Times
, February 22, 1952.

“57 Men Are Snatched from Sea.”
Portland Herald Press
, February 19, 1952.

“Mercer Stern Safe.”
Portland Herald Press
, February 22, 1952.

“Tanker Skipper.”
Portland Herald Press
, February 22, 1952.

“15 Lost as 2 Tankers Split off Cape.”
Standard-Times
(New Bedford, MA), February 19, 1952.

“Battered Ships, Weary Survivors Mark New Epic of Sea.”
Standard-Times
(New Bedford, MA), February 20, 1952.

B
OOKS AND
M
AGAZINE
A
RTICLES

Barbo, Theresa Mitchell, John Galluzzo, and Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.).
The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, a True Story.
Charleston, SC: History Press, 2010.

Dalton, J. W.
The Life Savers of Cape Cod.
Chatham, MA: Chatham Press, 1967 (reprint of 1902 edition).

Earle, W. K. “A Saga of Ships, Men and the Sea: When Two Ships Foundered Off Cape Cod, the Coast Guard Was Ready.”
U.S. Coast Guard Magazine
, June 1952.

Farson, Robert H.
Twelve Men Down: Massachusetts Sea Rescues.
Orleans, MA: Cape Cod Historical Publications, 2000.

Frump, Robert.
Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine.
New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Fuller, Timothy, and Harry Friedenburg. “The Coast Guard's Finest Hour: The Day the
Pendleton
and the
Fort Mercer
Broke in Two.”
Collier's Magazine
, December 27, 1952.

Hathaway, Charles B.
From Highland to Hammerhead: The Coast Guard and Cape Cod.
Self-published, 2000.

Johnson, Robert Erwin
. Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present.
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1989.

Kaplan, H. R.
Voyager Beware
. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1966.

Morris, Sid. “Ignore BlizzardâReturn to Ship” (reprint of 1965 article). Available at
http://www.sitnews.net/Acushnet/022403_SidMorris.html
.

Noble, Dennis.
Rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard: Great Acts of Heroism Since 1878.
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2004.

Orleans Historical Society.
Rescue CG 36500.
Orleans, MA: Lower Cape Publishing, 1985.

Quinn, William P.
Shipwrecks Around Cape Cod.
Orleans, MA: Lower Cape Publishing, 1973.

âââ.
Shipwrecks Around New England.
Orleans, MA: Lower Cape Publishing, 1979.

Stancliff, Sherry S. “Fort Mercer and Pendleton Rescues.”
Golden Tide Rips
, Class of 1950 Edition, 2000.

Tougias, Michael J., and Casey Sherman.
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
. New York: Scribner, 2009.

Webber, Bernard C.
Chatham: “The Lifeboatmen.”
Orleans, MA: Lower Cape Publishing, 1985.

Webster, W. Russell. “The Pendleton Rescue.” Available at
http://www.cg36500.org/history_pendleton_rescue.html
.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

M
ICHAEL
J. T
OUGIAS
is the author of many true rescue stories, including
A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
;
Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster at Sea
; and
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the
Can Do, which ALA named an Editor's Choice and which
Booklist
praised as “the best story of peril at sea since
The Perfect Storm
.” A frequent lecturer on his work, Tougias lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

michaeltougias.com

C
ASEY
S
HERMAN
is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of six books, including
Animal
,
A Rose for Mary
,
Bad Blood
,
Black Irish
, and
Black Dragon
. He received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Journalistic Excellence and has been nominated for an Emmy Award. A featured guest on major television networks and news programs, Sherman has lectured at The National Press Club and the U.S. Coast Guard Command Center in Washington, D.C. He lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts.