The Grey Seas Under: The Hazards And Triumphs Of The Deep-Sea Salvage Tug Foundation Franklin Farley Mowat Canadian Items,Ships And Sailing,World War Ii

Atlantic- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1958. Hardcover. Stated 5th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light rubbing to rear panel. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. Clean internals. Atlantic Monthly Press Logo embossed on front cover. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 341 pp 8vo. This book tells the story of a small ocean-going salvage tug, The S.S. Foundation Franklin, and the rescue work she did over a period of fifteen years to save ships buffeted by wind, storm, and sea on the waters of the North Atlantic. The ship was an old one saved from a salvage heap but outperformed newer ships and saved literally hundreds of ships and thousands of lives both from the open ocean and along the treacherous coasts of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.