Marmur, Jacland "The Ransom of Peter Drake"

Set in the North Pacific during the first winter after the end of World War 2. Former wireless operator Peter Drake, reduced to working his way back to the United States as a deckhand aboard the fictitious cargo steamer TRINTIPAL, redeems an earlier lack of valor by remaining aboard the vessel to send out wireless distress signals after the ship has hit a floating mine. That redemption costs him his life, as the story’s narrator (“Sparks”) relates.