Sailor’s Lady

As the USS Dakota and its sailors descend on the city, beauty parlors flood with hopeful women and nerves run high. Sally Gilroy is anxious about marrying her fiancé Danny during this visiting fleet. Her friends Myrtle and Georgine try to reassure her that nothing can go wrong.

Scrappy Wilson hatches a plan to keep Danny from marrying by sabotaging him. He enlists Goofer and plants a gun part in Danny's duffel bag before he disembarks. Danny is arrested for allegedly stealing Navy equipment by Chief Mulcahy.

Scrappy's scheme is revealed to Sally, who is told Danny will spend the entire month long visit in the ship's jail. She grapples with the possibility of losing him and contends with the approaching crisis. Sally's friends urge her to stay hopeful despite the overwhelming odds.

Danny escapes from jail and makes it to shore on the next boat, reuniting with Sally. They go to their brand new house, where Sally reveals she has adopted a baby named Margaret Lane, nicknamed Skipper. Danny's reaction is muted, signaling a rough road ahead.

Danny is arrested again for AWOL, this time using another sailor's identity. Sally pleads with Captain Roscoe, insisting they are married, and Roscoe chooses to drop charges and even promotes Danny to help handle his new family.

Rodney persists in pursuing Sally and visits to play with Skipper, pressing his case as a potential husband. Sally remains torn, wary of replacing Danny but aware of the legal and social pressure surrounding the matter.

To win Miss Purvis's favor, Sally and Danny throw a party, hoping to impress the juvenile court. The party erupts into chaos when Barnacle arrives and clashes with Danny, enraging Miss Purvis. The night ends with Sally breaking up with Danny.

Rodney steps in with a proposal, arguing that a husband is needed to keep Skipper. Sally reluctantly accepts, but Danny soon returns, and the couple reconcile. Sally ultimately breaks off the engagement to Rodney after Danny's return and learns of the deceit that triggered the earlier trouble.

The argument escalates into a violent fight that destroys the interior of their house. Miss Purvis witnesses the chaos and orders the two men to be arrested by the shore patrol, as juvenile court oversight looms over Skipper's future.

Desperate to keep Skipper, Sally sneaks aboard the Dakota and leaves the baby in Chief Mulcahy's room before returning ashore. The fleet sails out to naval war games, leaving Sally with unresolved fears for her daughter's future.

Skipper is found aboard the Dakota, forcing Danny to tell Captain Roscoe the whole story. Roscoe contemplates the implications as the ship continues its deployment.

When the ship opens fire in the war games, the baby screams and the ship doctor warns that stopping the firing is essential to avoid permanent damage. Roscoe hesitates due to concerns about reputation, but his superiors later praise the timely cease-fire after learning Skipper’s distress was caused by a loose safety pin.

Danny finally returns ashore and the couple are married at the Church of the Good Shepherd, sealing their life together.