TWO TANKERS DOWN: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History

Recounts the harrowing story of how a young lifeboat coxswain with the U.S. Coast Guard, and his crew of three volunteers performed a miracle at sea when two big oil tankers split in two on the night of February 18, 1952, in a raging blizzard off the coast of Cape Cod. Illus.