The boat
by Gibson
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"This is a true eyewitness account of the harrowing voyage of 135 people in an open lifeboat, from which only 4 survived"
The Dutch Steamer Rooseboom was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and only one lifeboat got away weighed down with over a hundred people. Only four people survived the next twenty-six days: two mad Japanese, a Chinese girl and Walter Gibson of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. This is his story.
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