[varmint]

Look up the Baychimo.

I’m trying to remember the name of a book I read as a child. WW2 American destroyer is hit and is going down, probably the Solomons campaign. All but two of the crew make it off. But the ship doesn’t sink. It drifts for weeks and it becomes sort of an engineering survival horror story as the two try to keep it afloat while avoiding Japanese patrols.

Any ideas?