My Boy John That Went to Sea by James Vance Marshall

My Boy John That Went to Sea
James Vance Marshall
New York: Ballantine Books
Copyright 1966
Reprinted 1968
Bal-Hi Number U2861
125 pages

The pages are tight and clean but tanned. The cover is very scuffed, shows edge wear and has a nick on the front near the spine  Acceptable. Paperback.

Each summer about ten thousand men go south to Antarctica to hunt the whale. This is the moving and exciting story of one of the ships, the SS Petrel, and in particular of her captain and his son, John, who is making his first voyage. It is the story of the conflict that develops between these two, and even more, of the titanic battles of the captain and his ship against the angry ocean.