Plot

In 1943, an American fishing boat has a fateful encounter with a seriously damaged Danish schooner off of Canada's Atlantic coast.

During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger boat, the fishermen agree to tow it into an isolated harbour.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

During World War II, Pat Banyon's whaler sights a shell-ridden Danish four-rigger in the waters off of Newfoundland. The crew has fled and only Captain Skalder is aboard. Thinking it has been a victim of a German U-boat, Banyon agrees to tow the vessel to a small Newfoundland port, the destination of the whaler's sole passenger, Margaret McLean. During the voyage it becomes apparent that one of the whaler's crew is a Nazi agent. In port, Banyon and Konrad, a crewman who proves loyal to the Allied cause, discover the the vessel they aided is a U-boat supply ship.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Pat Banyon is captain of the Daniel Webster, a commercial fishing boat. It's 1943 and he's had trouble crewing his boat with many men now in the armed forces. He sets off with a new crewman, Konrad and a female passenger, Margaret McLean, who is paying him to transport her to Newfoundland. Not long after departure they find that their wireless radio has been severely damaged. They soon come across a badly damaged Danish schooner, the Magre Kulinda out of Copenhagen. It's captain, Henrik Skalder, agrees to be escorted to Newfoundland but he has a reason for wanting to go to an Allied port and it's left to Banyon to stop him.—garykmcd

1943. In being denied conscription into the US Navy as deemed an essential worker, Pat Banyon, the captain of the Daniel Webster halibut fishing boat based out of Gloucester, MA, feels somewhat guilty about his lucrative business while many men his age are fighting in the war. Regardless, he is having trouble holding onto a steady crew partly due to the war, he having a core group who have long worked for him. His latest trip takes him reluctantly in the direction of Trabo, Newfoundland as he has agreed to provide passage to nurse Margaret McLean who is trying to make her way home. That reluctance is in the Grand Banks waters being filled with German U-boats which would not hesitate to sink an American fishing vessel. In addition to the ship's radio equipment being tampered with, they come across what Banyon initially believes is a ship attacked by the Germans. Almost appearing like a ghost ship, it is a Danish cargo ship (rum the primary cargo) called, translated, The Gaunt Woman disabled from a storm, they subsequently attacked by the Germans. The only surviving person aboard is its captain, Skalder, those other surviving crew members, an inexperienced lot, who abandoned ship. After providing assistance to Skalder and The Gaunt Woman to safe harbor, Banyon begins to believe that something is not quite right with the story behind The Gaunt Woman, his suspicions in combination with the issue of the radio tampering. If Banyon is able to discover what is actually behind his suspicions, he will find that he and the crew of the Daniel Webster may get closer to the dangers of war than he ever anticipated.—Huggo