Kyne, Peter B. "A Troubled Sea"

Another Kyne World War 2 tale, this time set aboard a British reefer, the LANCASHIRE MAID, en route to South America and back to England across the Atlantic. His hero, self-possessed Captain Jasper Hannay, outwits a German plot to sink his vessel on the homebound journey. Indeed, like other Kyne characters, Hannay has planned in advance how to foil the blasted Hun (Kyne’s World War 2 work reads as if the First World War were still being fought!). By story’s end, Capt. Hannay has sunk a German U-boat and also given a captured enemy aircraft pilot a lesson in British forthrightness and courtesy. Like many Kyne stories this one also has an older, wiser man (Capt. Hannay) serving as mentor to a younger, more impetuous man (the captured German aviator).