The boat

the long version

"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.