Watkins, Richard Howells "Girl Adrift"

World War 2 North Atlantic convoy short story. What reader could pass it up with the following tag line(s): “What danger gripped the ship when the girl was tossed overboard? She had to guess, and her ideas led a Canadian crew to daring action and an officer to romance.” If I had to guess, I’d hazard the notion that Richard Howells Watkins had been hitting the bottle while writing this one. His plot has a Nazi sub hijacking a merchant ship in convoy, loading torpedoes on the ship and then utilizing the unlucky ship to attack – and sink – other vessels in the convoy with same torpedoes. And of course no one figures this one out until our “girl overboard” gets pulled onto a Canadian corvette!