This hardback book with dustjacket and 281 pages in satisfactory condition was written by A Halcrow and published in the Edinburgh in 1938.
This book contains tales of stormy seas with the ship plunging through wind-tormented rollers. The Officers and men, with their traditional belief in themselves and their ship, carry on against frightful odds and win through to safety by their courage and seamanship.
But the sea is often calm and Captain Halcrow knows it in all its moods.
There is humour too, often in times of stress and then it is all the more delightful.