She was battered old freighter, alone and lifeless twenty miles off the French coast, her lifeboats all gone, but still a trail of smoke from her funnel -- and her captain the only man on board.From a real life experience when he was nearly run down at night sailing his own boat, Hammond Innes has produced one of the most extraordinary sea stories ever written; and one of the great sea characters -- Captain Patch, a man fighting to preserve his ship not because he loved her, but to save his reputation.
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She was battered old freighter, alone and lifeless twenty miles off the French coast, her lifeboats all gone, but still a trail of smoke from her funnel -- and her captain the only man on board.From a real life experience when he was nearly run down at night sailing his own boat, Hammond Innes has produced one of the most extraordinary sea stories ever written; and one of the great sea characters -- Captain Patch, a man fighting to preserve his ship not because he loved her, but to save his reputation.
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