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SS Pendleton was a Type T2-SE-A1 tanker built in 1942 in Portland, Oregon, United States, for the War Shipping Administration. She was sold in 1948 to National Bulk Carriers, serving until February 1952 when she broke in two in a storm. The T2 tanker ships were prone to splitting in two in cold weather.
Webber and his crew of three rescued the crew of the stricken T2 tanker SS Pendleton, which had broken in half during a storm on February 18, 1952 off Cape Cod. Webber maneuvered the 36-foot lifeboat under Pendleton ' s stern as the tanker's crew, trapped in the stern section, abandoned the wreck of their ship on a Jacob's ladder into the Coast ...
The new T2 tanker Schenectady broke in two at its dock due to brittle metal and bad welding The fractured USS Ponaganset (AO-86), at the General Ship and Iron Works, Boston, MA., 9 December 1947 The T2 tanker "Pendleton" bow in 1952 Crew from USCGC Yakutat pull in a life-raft carrying survivors from the bow section of SS Fort Mercer, the photo ...
On February 18, 1952, while en route from New Orleans to Boston, the T2 tanker SS Pendleton' broke in two in a nor'easter south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. [4] A United States Coast Guard Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft was diverted from searching for another T2 tanker Fort Mercer to search for Pendleton, and located both sections. At this ...
The film stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana, and chronicles the historic 1952 United States Coast Guard rescue of the crew of SS Pendleton, after the ship split apart during a nor'easter off the New England coast. [10] [11] [12] The Finest Hours was released on January 29, 2016.
SS Fort Mercer was a Type T2-SE-A1 tanker built by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., at Chester, Pennsylvania in October 1945. SS Fort Mercer (hull number 534) was built under a Maritime Commission contract and launched on 2 October 1945. With World War II ending on 15 August 1945, Fort Mercer did not serve in the war.
To Trinidad Corporation, Wilmington in 1948 then California Tanker Company, Wilmington in 1952. To Standard Oil of California, San Francisco in 1962 and renamed Nevada Standard. Scrapped at Kaohsiung in 1972. [6] Coalinga Hills – Built in 1943 by Marinship, Sausalito, California for the United States War Shipping Administration, San Francisco ...
Pendleton sinking, 19 February 1952 Carrying a cargo of fuel oil , the Type T2-SE-A1 tanker broke in two in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Massachusetts .