W. Matthew Hart - Author

A PACIFIC PRINCESS

This book is an imaginative and fascinating mystery story of history, conflict, romance and fast moving action at sea. Walter M. Hart (the author’s grandfather) during WW-2  was the captain of the “SV Pioneer”. This ship was a former Vanderbilt luxury yacht that was used by the U.S. Navy, during World War II to spy on the Japanese on hundreds of small island military bases in the Pacific and primarily near Australia. On a trip to Columbia, the captain is given a large rare Emerald, by his great uncle.  Later when the Japanese attack the S.V. Pioneer the gemstones  previously  were hidden for safekeeping by Capt. Hast during one of the fierce military encounters with the Japanese naval forces in the Southern Pacific.