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Under Pressure:
by Hill, A.J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0743236777
- ISBN 13
- 9780743236775
- Seller
-
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
2nd printing. "...the story of the thirty-six-hour-long ordeal of the crew of the S-Five. It is a story of the courage, endurance, and incredible resourcefulness of the entire forty-man crew: of Charlie Grisham, the sub's executive officer, a "mustang" promoted to the navy's officer corps from the enlisted ranks; of Chief Electrician Ramon Otto, whose baby daughter was born just days before the S-Five's departure; of Machinist's Mate Fred Whitehead, who at the last minute is able to dog the all-important watertight hatches shut; of Chief of the Boat Percy Fox, who redeems himself for the failure to close the induction valve that sank the S-Five; and of the sub's indomitable captain, Savvy Cooke, leading his crew through sheer force of will." "By shifting the water in the sub toward the bow torpedo room, Cooke is able to stand the 240-foot-long sub on its nose, bringing it close to vertical, and, using trigonometry, he calculates that at least part of the boat's stern is now above sea level. Cooke assembles his crew into three-man teams charged with cutting a hole out of the highest point in the sub: the telephone-booth-size tiller room. With no acetylene torch, no power tools--nothing but ratchet drills and hacksaws--the crew must cut through nearly an inch of strengthened steel or die in the attempt."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stillman Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 955SB
- Title
- Under Pressure:
- Author
- Hill, A.J
- Format/Binding
- Beige boards with Yellow cloth spine and gilt lettering. 2 minor bumps on book itself.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743236777
- ISBN 13
- 9780743236775
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- N.Y., London, Toronto
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 239
- Size
- Sm . 8 vo.
- Keywords
- 8 pages of b/w photos. D.J. has some minor rippling of topedges.
Terms of Sale
Stillman Books
About the Seller
Stillman Books
About Stillman Books
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.
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