Transcripts of conversations on the bridge of the El Faro, released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board, show that Capt. Michael Davidson of Windham was convinced his course would take him to the southwest quarter of Hurricane Joaquin, as the El Faro headed from Jacksonville, Florida, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. On that side of the storm, the wind and seas would be at the ship’s back, and speed the El Faro away from the hurricane’s eye, where the strongest winds and seas are found. But the storm in late September 2015 instead moved into the path of the...