Here is as gripping a real-life story as listeners can wish to hear. A story of the sea. The story of an 8,000-ton cargo steamer adrift with propeller-shaft broken, in the days before wireless. She drifted. They rigged up sails -and still she drifted, ' wallowing and rolling in the troughs of the great rollers which are a feature of the " roaring forties " '.
The stark reality of the adventure lasting a hundred and two days-the way those on board were fed from time to time by ships too small to take her in tow-is told by W. J. Connor , who was one of the crew. And listeners who have those they love at sea may well be thankful for the boon of wireless.