As the Pollux thrashed about, plates clanging against the rocks, her crew were hurled to the deck. Lieutenant Grindley, regaining his feet, rushed into the chartroom,... source
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“The storm raged over the clifftops of the bleak, uninhabited stretch of coast from Lawn Head to Chambers Cove, on the south coast of Newfoundland. In the black winter night the wind, blending with the roar of the sea smashing on the rocks below, sang its threnody of perpetual mourning. Minutes apart, the three ships grounded beneath the sheer precipice and, in a spectacular fight for survival, 203 young American sailors would die.”
The book's opening sentence names the exact stretch of cliff coast (Lawn Head–Chambers Cove) where the Pollux/Truxtun grounding scenes unfold.
Cassie Brown, Standing Into Danger (1979), publisher-licensed Everand preview — source
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