All Present and Accounted For

The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship

By: Steven J. Craig

Narrated by: Michael Goodrick

In November 1972, the Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis ran aground during a violent storm in Alaska, puncturing its hull, with a temporary patch applied to stop the flooding. The following day, enroute back to Honolulu, another, more vicious, storm struck; Jarvis now struggled with over 13 feet of water in their engine room and no power. The nearest ship that volunteered to assist was scheduled to arrive 30 minutes after the Jarvis officers estimated the ship would be destroyed on the rocky coastline. Wind gusts struck at 70 knots, hail and snow was falling, and at one time, Jarvis hit a swell at a 60-degree angle. This is the true story of the grounding and near-sinking of the Coast Guard's newest ship and the heroic efforts by the crew that saved the ship.

©2019 Steven J. Craig (P)2019 Steven J. Craig

Please find someone else to read the story

It was painful to listen to this story. The narrator mispronounced many of the words, using phonetic pronunciation instead of common terminology found in the Coast Guard and Navy.
examples included: corpsman - corpse man, boatswain mate - boat swan mate.
Lieutenant Commander - L C D R he would spell out the letters
Lieutenant JG - L T J G
And then the staccato delivery, no smooth flow.

Overall a good story that is little known today

Narrative

As a former Chif Petty Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, I found this book a fun read (listen). I found myself recalling experiences I shared with the story line on the cutters I served aboard.

I do wish a more experienced and professional narrator would have been used. This one beat the nautical terms and standard names to death.

good story, narrator falls flat

fantastic story but the narrator really needed to be told how to say many nautical words.

cutter Jarvis

this is a great story of heroic efforts by an entire crew to save their ship.

Great story but needed a qualified narrator

I really enjoyed listening to this story because I myself spent 3 years serving on the USCGC Morgenthau (sister ship to Jarvis) as a Machinery Technician in the Engine Room. I could actually visualize the turmoil the crew would have endured during this causality. I would highly recommend this book to any 378 Sailor.
My only complaint would be that the narrator obviously had no background experience in the Coast Guard or Navy and so mispronounced many of the terms using phonetic pronunciation instead of common terminology found in the Coast Guard and Navy. Examples included: Corpsman - corpse man, Boatswain mate - boat swan mate, Lieutenant Commander - L C D R he would spell out the letters and Lieutenant JG - L T J G.