The Finest Hours: In February of one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off
the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to
rescue more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
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