The boat
By: illustrated by John Groth.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Rooseboom (Ship); World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Description: "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.
Notes: Autobiographical.