Onedin Line, The : Series Two - Part Three

"I shall leave Albert of course. I'm not going to be made a laughing stock just so he can enjoy his tawdry pleasures. A common actress known to one and all to have taken my place in his affections!" James, sailing with Captain Baines, has an uneasy feeling about the Pibroch and her curious cargo. In rough seas off Africa they discover it is a 'coffin ship' - old, rotten and overloaded - expected to sink so the owners can claim the insurance. Can they save the crew and Baines' reputation? Elizabeth discovery of Albert's affair with Carrie Fox, plunges their marriage into dissaray. Despite Anne's warning, she is determined to leave him. Albert, however, decides to give her a taste of life alone by joining James' journey around the Horn, the last testing voyage left to a sailor... In Turkey, Albert recieves an offer of a job he can't refuse and a glimpse of love far stronger than any he ever knew in Liverpool. But there are those in Turkey and at home, who stand in the way of his golden opportunity.