Pattinson, James On Desperate Seas

North Atlantic / Murmansk Run tale set aboard the British tanker ROSA DARTLE which is carrying a cargo of industrial alcohol from Philadelphia to Archangel. Also aboard the ship are six American seamen whose mysterious presence unsettle a crew already on edge. After air and U-boat attacks sink the vessel, her surviving crew and passengers continue to fight for survival in an open boat and then later ashore in pitiless Arctic conditions.