Combat Ships
Season 1 • Episode 7: Rescue Ships • Watch with subtitles
Episode 7: Rescue Ships
March 26, 2017 • 45 min
In the past two centuries of combat, ships have played a major role in rescuing thousands of people--some injured, some in need of transport, and others fleeing for their lives. Board some of history's most remarkable rescue ships, from the USS Constellation, which hunted down illegal slave ships to the most unlikely rescue ship of World War II, a tiny workboat that saved hundreds of Danish Jews from Nazi terror.
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