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Feb 6, 2016 · The Finest Hours true story confirms that after being smashed by a mountainous wave, the CG-36500 rescue boat was thrown high in the air, landing on its side. The self-righting boat quickly corrected itself and was ready to face the next giant wave.
Jan 29, 2016 · What "The Finest Hours" gets right and wrong about the 1952 rescue attempt of the Pendleton oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass.
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Oct 22, 2020 · The true story of how two separate oil tankers split in half in a 1952 Nor’easter off Cape Cod and how the Disney movie about the disaster was made.
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Drama • 2016 • 1 hr 57 min. English audio. PG-13. CC. Based on the extraordinary true story of the greatest small-boat rescue in Coast Guard history, The Finest Hours is a tale of courage,...
Jan 28, 2016 · The new film “The Finest Hours" is closely based on a real-life rescue that took place at sea in February 1952. During a storm at least as extreme as the nor’easter immortalized in “The Perfect...
Feb 13, 2016 · The author of the definitive account of the Coast Guard's greatest small-boat rescue on the movie's accuracy.
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In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril. In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying ...