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One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin. The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic.
- Sales Rank: #3048111 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Bantam
- Published on: 1983-11-01
- Released on: 1983-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Recognized as a first-rate saga of the sea."--Montreal Gazette.
"Handled with boldness and ingenuity. . .should entrance even the most confirmed landlubber."--Toronto Star.
"Farley Mowat writes as a good helmsman steers--with easy skill, admirable precision, and the authority of a sailor in his element."--Nicholas Monsarrat
From the Publisher
"One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin. The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic.
"Recognized as a first-rate saga of the sea."--Montreal Gazette.
"Handled with boldness and ingenuity. . .should entrance even the most confirmed landlubber."--Toronto Star.
"Farely Mowat writes as a good helmsman steers--with easy skill, admirable precision, and the authority of a sailor in his element."--Nicholas Monsarrat
From the Inside Flap
One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin. The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect Storm, eat your heart out!
By ealovitt
The ocean-going salvage tug, `Foundation Franklin' was more than a match for the worst the North Atlantic could throw at her, including Force 10 hurricanes and Nazi U-Boats. Perfect Storm, eat your heart out! Here is the real book about the great-hearted men and their staunch little ships that survived blow after blow from the Atlantic and bobbed up for more.
If the author, Farley Mowat is sometimes guilty of over-the-top prose---well, he lived and worked on the Franklin, and he loved her sturdy lines, her jaunty roll, and every rivet that held her together while she rescued ships that were Goliaths to her chubby, little Baby Huey. No work could have been more dangerous; none required a higher degree of seamanship and courage than dropping a line on a berserk, lunging, steel-hulled freighter, and then towing her through the maw of a mid-December gale, or the shoals and `sunkers' of the Newfoundland coast---something the Franklin did so many times that her crew lost memory of all but their most freakish or man-killing expeditions.
"Grey Seas Under" will give you an interesting perspective on the true maritime heroes of World War II. Farley Mowat doesn't pull any punches when he describes the tension that existed between the expert seamen on the ocean-going salvage and rescue tugs, and their relatively `amateur' counterparts on Canadian and American naval warships. Some of the funniest scenes in the book involve convoys of merchant ships under the `protection' of corvettes and destroyers. Once a U-Boat had been sighted and the merchants steamed for cover, it was up to the Franklin to rescue the ones that ran into each other or shoaled themselves. Usually, the tug had to perform her duties without any cover from the warships.
"The days the salvors (tugboat seamen) spent tethered to fat and crippled merchantmen, crawling along on a straight course at a speed of two or three knots like mechanical targets in a shooting gallery, were the kind of days that would drain the courage from the most heroic man alive...The Germans knew, that for every rescue vessel sunk there would be a score of crippled merchantmen who would never make safe port."
This is a great book about men against the sea, even though the language gets very nautical at times. Read it and you will learn all about Lloyd's Open Form, and the tricks that wrecked merchant masters play to cheat tugs out of their salvage fees. You'll learn to tell the difference between `Monkey Island' and the poop deck---and the difference between `brass monkeys' and true seamen. You'll thrill to the dangers of sunkers, beam seas, and Arctic white-outs. You'll bite through your pipe-stem, just like the Franklin's captain did during those tows when his sturdy little tug steamed back into port with barely enough coal in her bunkers to "cook a pot of beans."
Someone ought to make a movie out of "Grey Seas Under." It's got everything---romance (between man and ship, at least); life-and-death adventures; heroism; humor; and the treacherous ice, wind, and sea of what the author respectfully refers to as `the Great Western Ocean.'
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Breathtaking real-life sea adventures as only Farley Mowat could write
By g2 in St.J
A rusty old hulk is resurrected as a sturdy and seaworthy deep-sea salvage tug. The ship and her crew (at work in the early twentieth century, including World War II) face extraordinary challenges as they attempt to save storm-battered ships and their crews from destruction. It's usually stormy weather that gets a ship into trouble, so the tug spends a lot of time in gales and heavy seas, attempting rescues in the open ocean and amongst reefs closer to shore, rigging huge pumps, cables and ground tackle, even divers. She works under international maritime "no cure - no pay" rules designed to encourage rescue and salvage, even in extreme situations. (If you don't succeed, you get nothing for your efforts, but if you save the ship the payoff is huge.) Written in Farley Mowat's usual easygoing vernacular, this is a must-read for sea adventure buffs.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting But Repetitive
By K. Floy
This is an interesting book about the life of a salvage tug on the stormy North Atlantic. It is told from a sailor's point of view which makes for good story telling but may not be as factually acurate as possible. Mowat admits as much.
This is a book that you can stop reading after completing the first half. There are only so many variations on the story of a ship in trouble, bad weather sets in, and the more-than-sea worthy tug heroically comes to the rescue. The book initially holds your attention but becomes highly repetitive by the later chapters.
One thing I did very much appreciate about the book was Mowat's unvarnished explanations of how salvage companies earn their money. It's not an entirely glamorous business and Mowat does a good job of pointing out how one's pecuniary interests leads to decision making. Obviously, salvage tugs don't operate out of the goodness of their heart.
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