The last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging nor'east storm in the Bay of Fundy on March 3, 1947. Loaded with 4,000 tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered about 25 miles off of Portland, Maine, taking all 24 crew members, 13 of them Nova Scotians, to their deaths. The story is told through the eyes and memories of those who lost family members on the Novadoc--the brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, and friends of the young Nova Scotia men, many of them war veterans, and the two women who perished in the tragedy. The book tells of the seafaring life of Novadoc's captain, Allan J. Vallis, OBE, an experienced merchant mariner and war veteran who unwittingly took the vessel into a hurricane-force storm. A critical look at the formal inquiry into the sinking and the report that deemed the loss "an act of God."