The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas


Authors
Peter Maas
ISBN
9780732268916
Published
Released
01 / 11 / 2005
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Dimensions
128 x 198mm

The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

Before World War II, before the discovery of sonar and nuclear power revolutionised submarine design, there was a fact accepted by all those who worked on them - if a submarine went down, all aboard were doomed. But Lieutenant Commander Swede Momsen, who had worked on every way to save those entombed in a sunken sub - smoke bombs, telephone marker buoys, deep-sea diving techniques, escape hatches and artificial lungs - never believed that submariners had inevitably to accept their fate.

On Tuesday, May 23, 1939, the submarine "Squalus" went down off the New England coast during her final test-run. Miraculously, 33 crewmen were still alive. With no methods of deep-sea rescue that had ever been used in an actual disaster, Swede Momsen was about to put his life's work to the ultimate test in a race against time to save the trapped men.
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