The Finest Hours Ch. 1-4

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Across
  1. 3. fireman on the Pendleton from Attleboro, Massachusetts and a nine-year veteran of the sea
  2. 7. forty-nine year old Pendleton third assistant engineer with 25 years of experience at sea
  3. 10. chief engineer of the Pendleton from Norfolk, Virginia
  4. 11. captain of the Eastwind from Winchester, Massachusetts
  5. 13. forty-eight year old German-born captain of the Fort Mercer, who had been at sea since age fourteen
  6. 16. a crew member on the Fort Mercer
  7. 17. radio operator of the Fort Mercer
  8. 19. eighteen-year old seaman on the Pendleton from Palm Beach, Florida
  9. 20. a 503-foot long T2 oil tanker carrying 122,000 barrels of kerosene and home heating oil
Down
  1. 1. twenty-four year old Coast Guard Boatswain's Mate First Class son of a minister
  2. 2. Pendleton maintenance worker (known as a "wiper") from New Orleans
  3. 4. twenty-year old radio operator of the Cutter Eastwind
  4. 5. a 503-foot long T2 oil tanker out of Norco, Louisiana bound for Portland, Maine
  5. 6. forty-one year old captain of the Pendleton who served as a tanker captain in WWII
  6. 8. thirty-five year old Pendleton wiper (maintenance worker) from Portland, Maine
  7. 9. forty-seven year old ship steward on the Pendleton from Chester, Pennsylvania
  8. 12. sixteen-year old crew member, who is the youngest on the Pendleton
  9. 14. first assistant engineer of the Pendleton
  10. 15. a 280-foot icebreaker Coast Guard cutter
  11. 18. a 36-foot Coast Guard motor lifeboat