Book description
It was an oddly assorted company of passengers that boarded the S.
S. Chetwynd in Hong Kong and Singapore to take passage to Fremantle.
The old vessel, operated by a line that had a poor reputation, was the
kind of ship that could hardly attract the finest officers or crew and
was patronised only by the least demanding or affluent of passengers.
In this company, living in such close quarters, there was inevitably a
certain amount of friction. But human passions would prove
insignificant by comparison when the indescribable fury of the storm hit.
James Pattinson was a fulll-time author who, despite having travelled
throughout the world, lived in the remote village where he grew up. He
wrote magazine articles, short stories and radio features as well as
numerous novels including Obituary for Howard Gray, also published by
Hale.
