- Hardcover: 348 pages
- Publisher: Nor'easter Press (Feb 15 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0977920011
- ISBN-13: 978-0977920013
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #750,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Telling it like it was,
By Bob Cluett "high latitude traveler" (Wellington, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ocean Station: Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977 (Hardcover)
As a former officer in the USCG (active duty 1954-58), I have long wanted a book that persuasively describes the difficult work of seagoing rescue. Michael Adams has given us that book. The frame story of OCEAN STATION is a descriptive history of the several ocean stations and of the American vessels (called OSVs)that occupied the eight stations that were the USA's responsibility in the Atlantic and Pacific between 1940 and 1977. Within the Coast Guard we called them "weather ships," because their most regular duties involved taking weather data and launching and tracking weather balloons. But they also collected rainwater samples to check on Soviet nuclear testing, and above all they were a prodigious resource for vessels and passenger aircraft that were in trouble several hundred miles from dry land.Adams is highly qualified for this task. 20 years a USCG officer and a licensed master mariner, he is also an extremely lucid and (where necessary) vivid writer. He brings great expository clarity to describing the three classes of cutter that were the workhorses of the OSV fleet, and why two of those classes -- originally designed for other work -- had structural and other problems in the 30- to 50-foot seas that the OSVs commonly encountered on station. He brings great descriptive skill to the rescue work involved in recovering several aircraft ditchings and in the assisting (sometimes towing) of civilian ships that were in trouble. As one who spent a chunk of his life doing that kind of work, I often found in his text the shock of recognition. All of us who went to sea for the Coast Guard within the span of the OSVs' history owe this writer a huge debt of gratitude for all that he has put into the record at the disposal of the public. The book's notable readability makes it an attractive acquisition for anyone interested in the history of the USA's role in the world's oceans, and an especially attractive acquisition for anyone interested in vividly told stories of danger and rescue. An accurate, authentic and often exciting piece of work.
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Forgotten History,
By Jack Tarr - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ocean Station: Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977 (Hardcover)
As a guy who did some six years thrashing around on North Atlantic stations, I loved the book - The account (pages 155 - 158)where some of my actions are described (aboard CGC Rockaway) is accurate, as is the harrowing account of a Bravo patrol by my prior ship (CGC McCulloch). The descriptions are accurate - including 50 foot seas and "rogue waves" perhaps double that size.It is a great read about real-life in the Coast Guard a half-century ago spending weeks on end in mid-ocean, year round.
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This review is from: Ocean Station: Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977 (Hardcover)
Was looking into dates and how the rest of the ocean stations, other than the ones I made, fared during this period. Very satisfying having lived some of episodes that were never recorded in a book and to be a part of this great organization.
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By Jack L. George - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Ocean Station: Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977 (Hardcover)
Having been an Ocean Station sailor in the 1970's this book brought back a lot of memories. This is how it was from the boredom to the excileration.
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