Bering Sea escort : life aboard a coast guard cutter in World War II

The author joined the US Coast Guard in 1941, when he was 18 years old. He was assigned to the cutter Haida and spent the first months on peacetime duty in the Bering Sea. After Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into the Second World War, the Haida embarked on convoy duty in the Gulf of Alaska and along the Aleutian Islands. This book is a record of the author's experiences on convoy patrol in a ship that was, on the face of it, inadequate to the task; the Haida had been built in the 1920s, she was too slow to threaten enemy submarines and had no radar. There are numerous black and white photographs and an appendix which contains a plan of the Haida and lists her dimensions, maximum draft, full-load displacement, boilers, engine, maximum speed and endurance.