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An anthology of tales of naval undercover operations during the Second World War in the Mediterranean, describing how a flotilla of raiding caiques smuggled Allied raiding parties and their supplies in and out of enemy held territory, contending with the enemy, the Allied Secret Services and the weather.

In this tale of life at sea the author tells of voyages round the Horn and his time in the Aland Islands where he fitted out a small boat and sailed with the lovely Elsa. He describes the trials and pleasures of life under sail, including adventures with sharks, drunken captains and a stowaway.

Adrian Seligman served before the mast in square rigged ships and came home to find his grandfather had left him some money - enough to buy a three-masted barquentine. With an amateur crew and his wife, he sailed to Rio, Tristan da Cunha and Cape Town, then across the Southern Ocean to Sydney.