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Crippled Tanker

Cmdr. Denys Arthur Rayner

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This rousing World War II tale is set in February 1943. H.M.S. destroyer 'Hecate' is pulled out of convoy escort duty to tow the crippled (and abandoned) Greek tanker 'Antioch' 500 miles across the North Atlantic from the spot where she had been attacked by a German wolfpack to the safety of a British port. The 'Antioch', at 15,000 tons, had been the largest ship in her convoy and her cargo of four million gallons of high-octane petroleum (enough to send 2,000 Wellington bombers to Berlin and back) is of vital importance to Britain's wartime economy.Initially angered by their rather inglorious assignment, the warship's officers and crew slowly begin to take pride in their towing assignment as they try and fend off a German U-boat and a succession of Luftwaffe warplanes after the 'Antioch' and 'Hecate' are spotted by a German reconnaissance airplane....

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