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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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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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- Eliza Berman
- Was The SS Pendleton Really Unable to Send Out A Distress Call?
- Did The Ship Really Break Apart Due to A Previous Weld That Did Not Hold?
- Did Miriam Propose to Bernie?
- How High Were The Waves During The Rescue?
- Did The High Seas Break The Rescue Boat's Window and Compass?
- Did Ray Sybert Really Try to Run The Pendleton Aground?
- Did Miriam Really Go to The Station and Plead That Bernie Be called Back in?
- How Many Survivors Did Bernie Webber and His Team Rescue?
- Did Car Headlights Really Help to Guide The Cg-36500 Motor Lifeboat to The Pier?
- Was The Rescue of The SS Fort Mercer Survivors Just as Incredible?
Yes. In fact-checking The Finest Hours movie, we learned that the ship, which had been traveling from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Boston, Massachusetts, broke apart too quickly and the equipment to send out a distress call was lost. "The seas were breaking in every direction," said the real Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck in the movie) shortly after the or...
No. The SS Pendleton had suffered a three-way fracture the year prior, but it was never repaired. Surprisingly, the hastily built WWII-era ship had still passed its last Coast Guard inspection in January 1952, the month before the disaster. Subpar welding methods used in the ship's construction were mainly to blame. It is also likely that the hull ...
Yes, but in researching The Finest Hours true story, we discovered that unlike the movie, they were already married at the time of the Pendleton rescue. The true story reveals that Bernie Webber's girlfriend Miriam proposed to him after just a few months of dating. It happened while the couple was parked in Bernie's old Plymouth on Nauset Beach (no...
Fact-checking The Finest Hours movie confirmed that nearby cutters observed sea heights anywhere from 40 to 60 feet. -USCG.mil
Yes. As Bernie Webber and his crew attempted to navigate the wooden motor lifeboat across the Chatham sandbar and out to the SS Pendleton, the high swells wrecked havoc on the boat. One such swell crashed down over the boat, knocking over coxswain Webber. In addition, the windshield on the coxswain flat was shattered into pieces and the compass was...
No. Unlike what unfolds in The Finest Hours movie, Chief Engineer Ray Sybert actually decided to keep the Pendleton's stern as far offshore as possible, fearing that the ship might further break up in the relentless surf. If the ship got close, Sybert ordered that the propeller be turned to keep the ship offshore in more moderate seas. -MWDC.org
No. Bernie's wife Miriam had been at home in bed with the flu at the time. He had not spoken to her in two days (his job could keep them apart for days at a time). As he was getting ready to depart, he told John Stello, a neighbor and local fisherman, to inform Miriam of what was going on. She never showed up at the Chatham Lifeboat Station like in...
With a crew of only four (including himself), Bernard "Bernie" Webber was dispatched from Chatham, Massachusetts to rescue the survivors of the sinking 503-foot SS Pendleton oil tanker, which had broken in half in the early morning hours of February 18, 1952 during a powerful winter storm. Using Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG-36500, Bernie and his t...
No. Both Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman, authors of The Finest Hoursbook, have pointed out that this part of the movie is pure fiction. Instead, Bernie Webber spotted the blinking red light of the buoy inside the Chatham Bar, which marked the way into Old Harbor and to the Chatham Fish Pier. Also, the bright beam from the Chatham Lighthouse c...
The rescue attempt for the SS Fort Mercer was almost just as incredible as the Pendleton rescue effort. William R. Kiely, Jr. earned a Gold Lifesaving Medal for his efforts, guiding a small surfboat to the Fort Mercer in heavy seas. At one point, his small boat slammed into the Fort Mercer's Hull. Kiely and his crew recovered two survivors before t...
Feb 13, 2016 · Luckily, Webber and two of the men on the CG36500 life boat that day were still alive to interview, but piecing together what happened on the tankers was much more difficult. Only one survivor...
Based on the extraordinary true story of the greatest small-boat rescue in Coast Guard history, The Finest Hours is a tale of courage, loyalty and honor in the face of overwhelming odds. When a...
The Finest Hours: Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana. The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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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...
