566pp. Printed light card covers. Sun faded spine and top front of cover. Text block edges and page margins tanning. Light chipping to edges. Reader's cracks in spine. Base of spine has been reinforced with clear tape. Internally neat, clean and tight. 12mo. The story of a destroyer-minesweeper engaged for the most part on escort duty in the Pacific in 1944 and of a curious episode of near mutiny.