In "Grey Seas Under", Farley Mowat writes passionately of the
courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation
Franklin. From 1930 until her final voyage in 1948, the stalwart
tug's dangerous mission was to rescue sinking ships, first
searching for them in perilous waters and then bringing them back
to shore. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the great ships
she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of
snow and rain, Foundation Franklin and her brave crew saved
hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they patrolled the
North Atlantic, including waters patrolled by U-boats in wartime.
Mowat spent two years gathering this material and sailed on some
of the missions he describes. The result is a modern epic -- a
vigorous, dramatic picture of the eternal battle between men and
the cruel sea.
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