This is life below decks-as far below decks as one can go in a corvette.
During the height of WWII, Ike walks into HMCS Chippawa (Winnipeg) to enlist in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. He joins up with romantic notions of rising through the ranks and seeing the world-while rising to heroic heights fighting Canada's enemies, and impressing his girl back home.
Ike's dreams are soon replaced by the soggy realities of ever-imminent...