"Quarterdeck" "Destroyer Man"

Maclean’s tag line: “The [Royal] Navy sighed when Horace Smith came aboard — but that was before Horace Smith showed the Navy how a pen-pusher fights at sea.” Paymaster-Lieut. Smith, son of a famous British World War 1 era destroyer man, shows he’s got the “right stuff” when his own destroyer goes prowling for what appear to be German subs preying on Allied freighters in the North Atlantic. Instead of U-boats, though, Smith and company find — and ultimately destroy — an ex-Norwegian tramp turned German raider which, using wounded freighters as stalking horses, had been sinking merchant and naval vessels alike.