If you enjoyed The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger I think you should read The Serpent's Coil by Farley Mowat. Written in 1961 about rescuing a badly listing Liberty ship during two hurricanes in 1948 it's fascinating. Compared to The Perfect Storm the bravery of the people involved and the danger they were in is understated.

It's also interesting because the events take place before satelite weather forcasting and reliable radios. A hurricane could "vanish" for several days as it crossed the Atlantic. Unless a ship ran into it and reported it's position the best the forcasters could do was make predictions about where it might be. It make you wonder about what it must have been like in the age of sail, with no radios and no long range forcasting.