Pacific Ordeal
by Kenneth Ainslie
Category: Pacific Ocean

The captain of the Wallace R. Gray. a seagoing tug, tells of her hazardous peacetime voyage across the Pacific. From the moment she set out from Panama for Manila with four minesweepers at the end of her tow cables, her captain and her crew knew no peace. They were beset by storms, broken towlines, poison, amateur surgery and the failure of their fuel supply.