Buckley, F. R. "Auld Acquaintance."

This World War 2 era short story features a Saturday Evening Post tag line reading: “A Nazi U-boat patches up two old sea dogs’ friendship.” The sea dogs in question being the Captain and Chief Engineer of a rust-bucket tanker filled with 10,000 tons of high octane gasoline which has fallen out of a North Atlantic convoy due to engine problems. The tanker, the fictitious POTOMAC, is attacked by and subsequently takes on a surfaced German submarine. The short story itself is somewhat humorous and boasts a Scottish Chief Engineer in the tradition of Guy Gilpatric’s Colin Glencannon.