Corvette K-225

IMDb link: 0035757
IMDb rating: 6.6 (649 votes)
Genres: Action, Drama, War, Romance
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald and others

Release date: 29 Sep 1943
Release year: 1943
Runtime: 98 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: canadian navy, corvette, 1940s, north atlantic, torpedo, navy, halifax nova scotia, sonar, submarine, depth charge

Plot:

In 1943, 'Mac' MacClain, Canadian Navy, has lost his ship and many men to a German torpedo. While waiting for a new ship, he befriends Joyce Cartwright, sister of one of his dead officers. We follow the building and launch of new Corvette K-225, the 'HMCS Donnacona'. And who should be Mac's new subaltern but Joyce's other brother Paul, fresh out of the academy. Mac will do his best to make a good officer of Paul...if they both survive their hazardous sea duty.

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