Dangerous seas / by Ernest W. Hills

This is the autobiography of Captain Ernest E.W. Hills, written during his retirement and published by his daughter. Hills went to sea in 1911 and served in both world wars, during the First World War on minesweepers and during the Second World War he was the Master of an oil tanker. At the beginning of World War Two he transported benzene on the Atlantic convoys. In 1942 his ship, the British Prestige, rammed the German u-boat U-333 forcing her to return to Hamburg. In peacetime he transported benzene with the British Tanker Company, which later became British Petroleum, and retired in 1951.