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The grey seas under : the perilous rescue missions of a North Atlantic salvage tug / Farley Mowat.
LIBRA VK1491 .M62 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mowat, Farley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foundation Franklin (Salvage vessel).
- Salvage--North Atlantic Ocean.
- Salvage.
- Salvage--Atlantic Coast (Canada).
- North Atlantic Ocean.
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Lyons Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lyons Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- A modern epic of the hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service. The "Foundation Franklin" ran from 1930 to 1948, rescuing sinking ships and battering towering waves in the North Atlantic.
- Contents:
- 1 A Ship Is Found 3
- 2 Chadwick's Navy 10
- 3 The Innocents 21
- 4 Into the Ice 29
- 5 Ebb Tide 39
- 6 The Hungry Sea 44
- 7 The Turning Point 59
- 8 Changing the Guard 71
- 9 Marooned 80
- 10 Oil on Troubled Seas 86
- 11 The Belgian Sisters: One 94
- 12 The Belgian Sisters: Two 107
- 13 Collision 122
- 14 Dead Man's Rock 132
- 15 Chicken Feathers 148
- 16 A Wild-Goose Chase 156
- 17 Approach to War 166
- 18 Too Close In
- and Too Far Out 178
- 19 The Man from Burn 197
- 20 An Even Score 213
- 21 Mad Greeks and Sabotage 232
- 22 A Naval Engagement 246
- 23 The Sea Takes Three 260
- 24 A Ship Aflame 271
- 25 Two Kinds of Recognition 279
- 26 To France and Back 293
- 27 Death of a Captain 302
- 28 Sable Sands and St. Pierre 309
- 29 The Writing on the Wall 325
- 30 The Last Return 329.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 1958.
- ISBN:
- 1585742406
- 9781585742400
- OCLC:
- 45805000
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