This American woman international correspondent, travel writer and authoress wrote under the pseudonym of Violet Sweet Haven. She travelled far and wide and was on the first China Clipper (aeroplane) flight to Hong Kong in 1937.
Haven wrote an article about her experience of pre-boarding and sailing in a blackout boat from Hong Kong during wartime (in China) in 1941. The article can be read in the New York Times dated 8 June 1941 at: https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1941-06-08_90_30451/page/n177/mode/2up?q=Sweet+Haven