The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

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