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"Finest Hours"
Resources
Pendleton - Ft. Mercer Rescue Feb 18-19, 1952
The film Finest Hours, based on the best selling book of the same name
by Michael Tougias & Casey Sherman will be released on January 29, 2016.
The story of this heroic rescue may not be well known outside of the
Coast Guard Family. This page is a collection of resources related
to the Pendleton-Mercer Rescue for those wishing to learn more about the
events of Feb 18-19, 1952.
"The lifeboat was secured to the pier and the survivors lined up along
the side
of the boat and climbed ashore for transportation to the Coast Guard
Station."
Photo by Richard C. Kelsey, Chatham, Mass.
Coast Guard Official Resources:
The Rescue:
The Pendleton-Fort Mercer Rescue
http://www.uscg.mil/d1/staChatham/PendletonFtMercer.asp
The Pendleton Rescue - Article
by Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG
http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/pendleton_webster.asp
Historic Photo Gallery
http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/pendleton_photo_index.asp
The Fort Mercer and Pendleton
Rescues
http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/Pendleton_Mercer_Stancliff.asp
Coast Guard Times Article, Feb.
2012
http://www.uscgnews.com/clients/c778/437895.jpg
Coast Guard Compass- Official
Blog - 60th Anniversary of the Pendleton Rescue by RADM Daniel Neptune
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/02/the-60th-anniversary-of-the-pendleton-rescue/
USCG Top Ten Rescues
www.uscg.mil/lantarea/docs/USCG%20Top%2010%20Rescues.doc
Coast Guard Announces
1,109,310
Lives Saved since 1790 - Aug. 4, 2007
www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg534/News/RescuesOneMillion.doc
The People:
"The Gold Medal crew relaxed at the station with coffee and doughnuts
after a
wild night at sea. Left to right: BM1 Bernard Webber, EN3 Andrew
Fitzgerald,
SN Richard Livesey and SN Irving Maske."
Photo by Richard C. Kelsey, Chatham, Mass.
Gold Lifesaving
Medal Citation for Bernard C. Webber, Andrew
J. Fitzgerald, Richard
P. Livesey & Ervin E. Maske
http://www.uscg.mil/history/awards/GoldLSM/18Feb1952.asp
Bernie Webber
Biography
http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/WebberBernard/WebberBernardCbio.asp
Bernie Webber CWO
(ret) Obituary
www.uscg.mil/history/people/WebberBernard/WebberBernardObitWebster.pdf
Coast Guard Compass- Official
Blog - Coast Guard Heroes: BM1 Bernard Webber
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2015/10/coast-guard-heroes-bm1-bernard-webber/
Gold
Lifesaving Medal
Citation for William
R. Kiely, Jr.(USCGC
Yakutat)
http://www.uscg.mil/history/awards/GoldLSM/18_19_FEB_1952.asp
Press Release
-Awards for 21 Coast Guardsmen, May 14, 1952
http://www.uscg.mil/d1/staChatham/images/36524/PressRelease1952001.pdf
Coast Guard
Moments: SS Pendleton & Ft. Mercer - Coast Guard Channel YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgYmbI9E-3w
Assets:
"The Rescue Boat CG36500 returned to the Chatham Fish Pier with 32
survivors
of the tanker PENDLETON after the rescue at sea. EN3 Andrew Fitzgerald
was
on the bow ready to handle the tie up at the pier. The other three men
were
PENDLETON survivors."
Photo by Richard C. Kelsey, Chatham, Mass.
36 Ft Motor Life
Boat info
http://www.uscg.mil/history/cutters/boats/docs/36FootMLBTypeTRS.pdf
USCGC
Acushnet
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Acushnet1946.pdf
USCGC Eastwind
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Eastwind_1944.asp
USCGC McCulloch
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/McCulloch1946.pdf
USCGC Umimak
http://www.uscg.mil/tcyorktown/info/History/Cutters/unimak.asp
USCGC Yakotat
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Yakutat1948.pdf
USCG Air Station
Salem
http://www.uscg.mil/history/stations/airsta_salem.asp
Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C.
Webber:
Coast Guard Cutter Webber, the service's first fast
response cutter, arrives
at Coast Guard Sector Miami.
U.S. Coast Guard photo illustration.
Coast Guard Compass- Official
Blog - USCG Cutter Bernard C. Webber
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/welcome-to-the-fleet-bernard-c-webber/
Commissioning of
USCGC Bernie Webber - Remarks by ADM Papp, Commandant USCG
http://www.uscg.mil/history/ccg/Papp/SPEECHES/Webber_Commissioning_Remarks.pdf
Non-Government Resources:
Non-Profit Organizations:
Orleans Historical Society
(restored and maintains CG36500)
http://www.cg36500.org/Rescue-story.html
CG36500 2009
Restoration - Orleans Historical Society - YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=192ayMi2YLU
Historic Lifeboat CG36500 - Cape Cod
Chronicle - YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3JEempMFyI
Coast Guard Lightship
Sailors Association
http://www.uscglightshipsailors.org/crossed_the_bar/webber/
Books in Print:
Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman.
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring
Sea Rescue. New York: Scribner, 2009.
Theresa M. Barbo, Captain W. Russell
Webster (Ret.).
The
Pendleton
Disaster Off Cape Cod: the Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard
History. Foreword by Admiral Thad Allen (Ret.). Third
Edition, 2010. The History Press (historypress.net).
Bernard C. Webber. Chatham,
"the lifeboatmen". Lower Cape Publishing.
1985
Robert R. Frump. Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in
U.S. Coast Guard History. Lyons Press, 2008. This book chronicles
the SS Pendleton and SS Fort Mercer rescues off Chatham,
MA, in 1952.
Theresa M. Barbo, Captain W. Russell
Webster. Julia Marshall. The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the
Pendleton Crew. 2013 The History Press
(historypress.net). (Children 8-12
yrs)
News Stories:
Newspaper Archives, Orleans Historical Society
http://www.cg36500.org/Archive_Newspapers.html
Military.com - Chatham Readies for Filming of
Dramatic 1952 Pendleton Rescue
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/10/15/chatham-readies-for-filming-of-dramatic-1952-pendleton-rescue.html
Boston Globe - Coast Guard Hero Watches
1952 Rescue made into a movie 11/14/2014
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/14/coast-guard-hero-watches-rescue-made-into-movie/U6K0gx9yJ4iEDO4xBwtvgL/story.html
"The Finest Hours" tells story of Wrentham man’s role
in historic sea rescue, Wrentham Times 1/23/2016
http://www.wrenthamtimes.com/wrentham/2016/01/the-finest-hours-mel-gouthro.html
CBS-News - Unbelievable Coast Guard
Rescue 10/17/2015 YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEjBgx6rY9A
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