My long-awaited book of heroic and hilarious stories about the Coast Guard’s greatest ships is finally here ! These are the biggest reasons you need to grab a copy. In the First World War, six Coast Guard cutters went to war in Europe. Their mission: take convoys all alone on the treacherous, 1,500-mile route from Gibraltar to Wales, evading German submarines all the way. They were given one rule: if a ship in your convoy is sunk, don’t stop to help, it will only make you the next target. But try telling a Coast Guard cutter to leave someone behind. This is the story of the cutter that didn’t listen. In April 1861, a Revenue Cutter sailed with a fleet of Navy ships on a desperate mission: resupply besieged Fort Sumpter so it wouldn’t surrender to the South. On the way, though, a storm blew the rest of her convoy off course, leaving her to arrive alone outside Charleston Harbor at around midnight. Picket ships spotted her and sent up flares; rumors spread in town that the North had come...
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