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No Higher Honor Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf

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ISBN-10: 1591146763

ISBN-13: 9781591146766

Edition: 2013

Authors: Bradley Peniston, William J. Crowe

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Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small combatant built for escort duty. But its skipper imbued his brand-new crew with a fighting spirit to match their forebears, and in 1988 when the guided missile frigate was thrust into the Persian Gulf at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, there was no better ship for the job. Forbidden to fire unless fired upon, Captain Paul Rinn and his crew sailed amid the chaos in the Gulf for two months, relying on wit and nerve to face down fighter jets and warships bent on the destruction of civilian vessels. Their sternest test came when an Iranian mine ripped open the ship's engine room, ignited fires on four…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 1/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Bradley Peniston has covered the U.S. military in more than a dozen countries and has spent time aboard more than fifty warships. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and elsewhere.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Those Are Mines
Paul Rinn and the Roberts
A Bath-Built Ship
Damage Control for Breakfast
Putting to Sea
Drawing Swords
Passage to Hormuz
In Harm's Way
Mine Hit
Rising Water
Ship's on Fire
Darkness Falls
Revenge
Return and Repair
Epilogue
Appendix: Ship's Muster
Notes
Bibliography and Sources
Index