Download or read book Cape Cod to the Rescue written by Noel W. Beyle and published by . This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Cape Cod Firefighting written by Britton W. Crosby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founding of its first fire department in Provincetown in 1836, Cape Cod has had an exciting and unique firefighting history-as told in Cape Cod Firefighting. Rare and recently discovered photographs depict some of the area's largest fires, as well as its many innovations, from Provincetown's first Hunneman hand pumper, known as the "George Washington," to the brush breakers uniquely designed to respond to the Cape's devastating forest fires. Cape Cod fire departments also developed rescue squads that eventually evolved into the first emergency medical service system in Massachusetts to use paramedics. The images in Cape Cod Firefighting offer a tribute to the people and events that have shaped Cape Cod's fire rescue service.
Download or read book Pilgrims to the Rescue written by Wilma Pitchford Hays and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the first few days in the New World for the passengers of the Hawk, a tiny boat grounded on the shores of Cape Cod in 1626.
Download or read book Lighthouses and Life Saving Along Cape Cod written by James W. Claflin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, heroic men and women have guarded the treacherous yet beloved Cape Cod coastlines. From Provincetown to Chatham, Sandwich to Cuttyhunk, and many towns in between, residents have relied on the Atlantic for employment and nourishment. But Cape Cod has always been plagued with a shifting coastline that consistently defies mariners efforts to pass through Massachusetts waters. In 1792, as shipping increased, mariners petitioned for a sorely needed lighthouse. It was not until 1797 that the first lighthouse on Cape Cod was built at the Highlands in North Truro. More lights and rescue stations would follow as the seas claimed their toll. Many lightship stations were also established from Chatham through Nantucket Sound to mark the constantly changing sandbars submerged offshoremore than in any other spot along the US coastline. Today, as sea levels change and sands continue to shift, some of these historic stations have been lost or moved, while still others are preserved only in such photographs as these.
Download or read book The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod written by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 CG36500. 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."
Download or read book The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod written by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 CG36500. 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.
Download or read book The Wardens of Cape Cod The Achievements of the Coast Guard Patrol written by Beston Henry and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two Cape Cods in the world, one the picturesque and familiar land of toy windmills, picnickers and motorists, the other the Cape which the sailors see, the Cape of the wild, houseless outer shore, the countless tragic wrecks, the sand bars and the shoals. This unknown Cape begins at Monomoy; Monomoy where the silver-gray bones of ancient wrecks lie in mouldering lagoons; it leaps the open waters of Chatham and Orleans, and beginning again at Nauset sweeps on, league upon lonely league, to the hook of Provincetown. Beyond the broad swath of the churning breakers, lies the North Atlantic, most masculine of seas. Now betrayed by a long smear of churning water in the outer green, now buried treacherously under an unrevealing tide, off-shore bars lie hid. Standing well enough in, the greasy one-stack tramps, the fishing schooners coming and going from the Georges, the vanishing steel windjammers with their Mediterranean or Negro crews, the little unromantic “sugar bowls,” and the big tugs with their solemn barges linked behind, all day pass to and fro. Once a sailor has picked up Nauset Light on his way north to Provincetown, the only signs of life he will find along the beach will be the coast guard stations and the little cottages which the surfmen build about them for their families. Thirty miles of the thunder of the breakers, thirty miles of Nature in the elemental mood, thirty miles where night reveals no welcoming window light, and the world vanishes into a darkness full of unutterable mystery, keen, moist, ocean smells, and thundering sound. It is the task of the surfmen to warn vessels standing into danger, to rescue them and their crews from positions of peril, to furnish fuel and food and water to ships in distress, and even, should occasion arise, to navigate a ship into the nearest port. Including the Monomoy and Chatham region, the patrols of the outer Cape cover a length of fifty wild, breaker-beaten miles. The little harbor openings which have been mentioned alone break the line, elsewhere along it men go south and men go north, and station links with station through the night.
Download or read book The Rescue written by C. H. Claudy and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden History of Cape Cod written by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The salty waves and sandy beaches of Cape Cod disguise its fascinating and nearly forgotten history. From Provincetown to Falmouth, the Cape's fifteen towns offer a plethora of hidden and enchanting tales. Learn why one of the most famous rescues in Coast Guard history spent nearly fifty years in the shadows without public notice. Discover which wild creature went from the nineteenth-century soup pot to enjoying conservation protection under state law. Historian Theresa Mitchell Barbo explores these mysteries and more, from the lost diary of a nineteenth-century schoolteacher to the reason Cape Codders call their lunch "the noontime dinner." Join Barbo as she lifts the lid on the quirky and remarkable character of Cape Cod and its forgotten happenings.
Download or read book Cape Cod SEAL Rescue written by Elle James and published by Elle James. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grieving Navy SEAL widower, John Decker, commemorating the two-year anniversary of the day he lived and his wife died, is dragged back into life by a riptide and a blonde he can't get out of his thoughts. Plagued with survivor's guilt, he's reluctant to enter a new relationship, until he meets a feisty bartender with attitude and curves to go with it. Roxi Lanierwas the typical young teen in the city, happy, full of life and bulletproof, until she became the victim of a violent crime. Her mother moved her to Wellfleet on Cape Cod, away from the scene of her misfortune to start over. Fourteen years later, she's still afraid to date and be intimate with a man, the scars of her past overriding the happiness she craves. Though she's an independent owner of a thriving beach bar, she has yet to find success in love. Tides change when she witnesses a suicidal widower diving headfirst into a riptide. Decker and Roxi struggle to stay afloat through the wreckage of their pasts and the storms of the present to sail into a future together.
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.
Download or read book The Cape Cod Companion written by Jack Sheedy and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lighthouses and Life Saving Along Cape Cod written by James W. Claflin and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, heroic men and women have guarded the treacherous yet beloved Cape Cod coastlines. From Provincetown to Chatham, Sandwich to Cuttyhunk, and many towns in between, residents have relied on the Atlantic for employment and nourishment. But Cape Cod has always been plagued with a shifting coastline that consistently defies mariners' efforts to pass through Massachusetts waters. In 1792, as shipping increased, mariners petitioned for a sorely needed lighthouse. It was not until 1797 that the first lighthouse on Cape Cod was built at the Highlands in North Truro. More lights and rescue stations would follow as the seas claimed their toll. Many lightship stations were also established from Chatham through Nantucket Sound to mark the constantly changing sandbars submerged offshore--more than in any other spot along the US coastline. Today, as sea levels change and sands continue to shift, some of these historic stations have been lost or moved, while still others are preserved only in such photographs as these.
Download or read book The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History written by Theresa M. Barbo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cape Cod SEAL Rescue written by Elle James and published by Twisted Page Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Er glaubt, dass er es nicht verdient, glücklich zu sein. Der trauernde Navy SEAL-Witwer John Decker, der gerade dem zweijährigen Jahrestag des Tages gedenkt, an dem er überlebte und seine Frau starb, wird von einer Strömung und einer Barkeeperin, die er nicht aus seinen Gedanken verbannen kann, zurück ins Leben gerissen. Geplagt von Schuldgefühlen will er sich nur ungern auf eine neue Beziehung einlassen, bis er die temperamentvolle Barkeeperin mit Charakter und Kurven kennenlernt, die es in sich hat. Einem Mann zu vertrauen, könnte sie von den Fesseln ihrer Vergangenheit befreien. Roxi Lanier war der typische Teenager in der Stadt, glücklich, lebensfroh und selbstbewusst, bis sie Opfer eines Gewaltverbrechens wurde. Ihre Mutter zog mit ihr nach Wellfleet auf Cape Cod, weg vom Ort ihres Unglücks, um neu anzufangen. Vierzehn Jahre später hat sie immer noch Angst, sich mit einem Mann zu verabreden und mit ihm intim zu werden, denn die Narben ihrer Vergangenheit beeinträchtigen das Glück, nach dem sie sich sehnt. Obwohl sie eine unabhängige Besitzerin einer erfolgreichen Strandbar ist, hat sie noch keinen Erfolg in der Liebe gefunden. Das Blatt wendet sich, als sie Zeugin eines selbstmordgefährdeten Witwers wird, der sich kopfüber in eine Strömung stürzt. Decker und Roxi kämpfen sich durch die Trümmer ihrer Vergangenheit und die Stürme der Gegenwart, um in eine gemeinsame Zukunft zu steuern.
Download or read book True Rescue The Finest Hours written by Michael J. Tougias and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four young men in a tiny lifeboat brave a dreadful storm to save dozens of lives in this illustrated chapter book adaptation (for readers 6-9) of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours. On the night of February 18th, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has even seen, two oil tankers off the shore of Cape Cod are torn in half by the force of the seas. For the men on board, survival seemed impossible. What follows is a harrowing Coast Guard rescue in a tiny lifeboat, where four young heroes beat the odds and bring more than thirty stranded sailors to safety. This first book in the True Rescue chapter book series is a fast-paced, uplifting story that puts newly independent readers in the middle of the action. Christy Ottaviano Books New York Times bestselling author Michael J. Tougias adapts his histories of real life stories for young readers in his True Rescue Series, capturing the heroism and humanity of people on life-saving missions during maritime disasters. Illustrated Chapter Books for ages 6-9: True Rescue: The Finest Hours True Rescue: A Storm Too Soon Young Readers Adaptations, for ages 9-14 The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition) A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition) Into the Blizzard (Young Readers Edition) Attacked at Sea (Young Readers Edition)
