Author: Mowat, Farley,
Title: The Serpent's Coil: an incredible story of hurricane-battered ships and the heroic men who fought to save them.
Description: NY, Lyons Press, (2001). VG PB (advance uncorrected proof). The New York Times calls this book an almost physical experience because of this unique episode in annals of the sea. Serpent's coil is the symbol for cyclone. It recounts the amazing story of the Liberty ship Leicester which sailed for New York from England in the summer of 1948, ran into a herricane with the loss of 6 lives, and was abandoned in the mid-Atlantic. It also tells of the Foundation Josephine which tracked the derelict Leicester over a vast distance, found her listing severely, and towed her another thousand miles to Bermuda, where both ships ran into yet another hurricane. A classic of the sea.

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