McPhee, John, — Looking for a Ship: the Merchant Marine.

NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1990). VG PB. In less than 10 years the US Merchant Marine has shrunk from more than 2,000 ships to fewer than 400 & Andy Chase is looking. for a ship and a job. He finds one aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes captained by the extraordinary Paul McHenry Washburn. The journey takes them on a 42 day run down the Pacific coast of S. America with the crew telling sea stories of other runs & other ships, disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity & courage. Thus emerge the history & character of an extraordinary calling.