ISBN-13: 9780099591559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str.
In November 1941, Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC, arrives in Singapore as second-in-command of HMS Porcupine. To the shell-shocked Trewin, the gunboat and her 5 elderly consorts symbolise the ignorance and blind optimism he finds in Singapore.