SS Fort Mercer
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SS Fort Mercer was a Type T2-SE-A1 tanker built by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., at Chester, Pennsylvania in October 1945.[1]
Loss
Lua error in Module:Details at line 30: attempt to call field '_formatLink' (a nil value). On February 18, 1952, the Fort Mercer broke in two in a gale, 30 miles east of Chatham, Massachusetts.[1] On the same day the SS Pendleton, also a T2 tanker, broke up about 20 miles away prompting a daring rescue by the United States Coast Guard.[2]
References
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (The story of the Pendleton's loss and rescue of surviving crewmen is told 2016 film, The Finest Hours.)
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