The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen — 1948

Nine degrees south at Port Moresby, Karney logs a completed salvage-and-rescue job shadowed by a murder -- and the derelict and wandering "boy" at the center of it turn out, true to the show's fondness for puns, to be a wandering buoy.

Clear of Darwin after a dust-up at a place logged as Banocotel, Karney records the trouble under a heading of fang rubies and a black Siamese.

Singapore harbour falls astern at nine in the morning, three degrees north, with Karney freshly extracted from a brush with international crime that the log lays at the feet of an ambitious hostess on South Bridge Road.

Out of Penang, the Queen unloads her cargo along with a few passengers who never did pay their way -- free passage the log charges to a bubble dancer and the buccaneers who travelled with her.

Eight degrees south at Surabaya, the Queen clears port a cargo short, the loss traced in the log to a peg-leg skipper and an Iberian blade.

An emergency layover at Wellington -- the log's southernmost position fix of the run, thirty-nine degrees south -- is charged to Rocky the Third and a dead man's chest, in a broadcast that brought guest turns from Roddy McDowall and Ben Wright alongside series regular William Conrad.

Thirty-six degrees south at Sydney, Karney departs after a run-in with British law over a pair of Queen Anne pistols and a dealer working King George Road.

A messenger comes aboard with an invitation to the wedding of Kang's own daughter, but the celebration sours fast -- and turns fatal the moment the bridegroom is shot dead, in the broadcast that closes out the documented run.