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The Sol e Mar Tragedy off Martha's Vineyard

By: Captain W. Russell Webster USCG (Ret.),Elizabeth B. Webster

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The Sol e Mar Tragedy off Martha's Vineyard

By: Captain W. Russell Webster USCG (Ret.),Elizabeth B. Webster

On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the "Sol e Mar." When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cry for help, and believing that the two were connected, the U.S. Coast Guard did not launch rescue units for several days. The Hokansons' deaths prompted a new anti-hoax law and changed United States Coast Guard search and rescue procedures. Historian Captain W. Russ Webster, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), and journalist Elizabeth B. Webster chronicle the fascinating story of the "Sol e Mar" and its crew and explain the psychology of hoax callers and Coast Guard technological advancements since the tragedy.

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1625851189

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9781625851185

The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo,Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) (Webster

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The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo,Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) (Webster

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.

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1625845480

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9781625845481

Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot, The

By: Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.)

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Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot, The

By: Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.)

On the evening of January 2, 2009, Captain Matteo Russo and crewman John Orlando got underway aboard the fifty-four-foot fishing vessel Patriot, from the iconic State Pier in Gloucester, Massachusetts, bound for nearby fishing grounds in search of cod. They never returned. What happened less than eight hours later on that bitter and dark winter early morning that caused the Patriot to sink? Why did the Coast Guard deliberate more than two hours before launching a rescue mission? Using official documents, numerous interviews and insight as a search and rescue commander, maritime historian Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.), expertly documents the tragedy of the Patriot, with startling findings. He deftly explores the condition of "normalcy bias" linked to this heartbreaking case, which can cause people--including Coast Guard personnel--to deny and sometimes over-deliberate threats to human life.

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146715086X

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9781467150866

The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo,Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) (Webster

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By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo,Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) (Webster

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The Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot

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1439674922

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The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story

By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo,W. Russell Webster

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The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story

By: Theresa Mitchell Barbo,W. Russell Webster

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.

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161423020X

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9781614230205

Book's by Captain W. Russell Webster

The Sol e Mar Tragedy off Martha's Vineyard

The Sol e Mar Tragedy off Martha's Vineyard

The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot, The

Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot, The

The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew

The Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot

The Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot

The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

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