WWII: Cunning and seamanship got the Kentucky Minstrel out of Oran while the Royal Navy pounded the French fleet. Hastily armed, she sailed in convoy after convoy through the inferno of the submarine-haunted Atlantic, home to a bomb-battered Liverpool.
Captain Turner and his crew had been fighting the sea all their lives; now they faced the added hazards of the U-boat wolf packs, the Luftwaffe's dive-bombers, the shells of the surface raiders.