Mike Tougias
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Reccounts the true story of how the Downs family survived the sinking of the Heredia, a merchant freighter located in the Gulf of Mexico that was torpedoed by German U-boats in in 1942.
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 predicament. Built with "dirty steel," and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split...