Bosworth, Allan R. "If I Must Die-.".

Period short story set in a lifeboat in the South Atlantic. Adventure tag line: “Jeremiah Bone was as fair a Shakespearean scholar as any ship captain his age who never went to Cambridge, despite the fact that he’d list four precious volumes of the Bard in as many wrecks at sea. Which explained his determination to save the fifth and final tome if he salvaged nothing else when the Nazi U-boat’s torpedo sank the MARY JOLLY.” Old Captain Bone’s knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays leads to an ending that O. Henry himself might have penned, though with a bit of old fashioned Elizabethan vengeance thrown into the mix!