 When a convoy of 30 ships came under attack, he was aboard one of only eight that remained afloat.His practical jokes and quirky humor aboard ship earned him the nickname, "The Storm Petrel of the Merchant Marines".Unable to find stage work in New York after the war, Kenley would come to earn his greatest fame not as a performer, but as a producer; not on Broadway, but in the entertainment-deprived towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio.