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Hard Aground: Untold Stories from the Pollux and Truxtun Disaster - Bett Fitzpatrick
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In the pre-dawn hours of February 18, 1942, three American warships zigzagged in convoy along the south coast of Newfoundland. Caught in a raging blizzard, the three ships ran aground on one of the most inhospitable stretches of coastline in the world—less than three miles apart, within eight minutes of each other. The
Wilkes
freed herself. The
Truxton
and
Pollux
could not. Fighting frigid temperatures, wild surf, and a heavy oil slick, a few sailors, through ingenuity and sheer grit, managed to gain shore—only to be stranded under cliffs some 200 feet high. From there, local miners from the Town of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland mounted an arduous rescue mission.
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