Davis, Norbert "Blow the Man Down"

A World War 2 romantic trifle decidedly aimed at Liberty’s female audience. Pretty “Dutch” loves Quentin, an absent-minded mariner who can recite ship vital statistics for days, correctly identify stack colors and house flags, and dredge up from memory vast stores of merchant marine trivia (sounds like a charter member of the Steamship Historical Society of America to me!). Unfortunately, the only thing Quentin can’t ever remember is when he’s promised to go out on a date with Dutch. She cures him of this defect on a double date with another local belle and a merchant mariner who’d been torpedoed from one side of the Atlantic to the other. By story’s end, Dutch and the reluctant mariner Quentin are altar bound.