The Boat

Singapore Escape, Cannibalism at Sea

• Author(s): Walter Gibson,
• Publisher: Monsoon Books
• Pages: 152
• ISBN_10: 9814358959
  ISBN_13: 9789814358958
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Military , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , Travel / Asia / Southeast ,

Description:... In 1942 a ship carrying 500 escapees from Japanese-occupied Singapore set sail for Ceylon. Halfway to safety she was torpedoed and sank. Only one lifeboat was launched—a lifeboat built to carry twenty-eight but to which 135 souls now looked to for salvation. For twenty-six days, cannibalism, murder, heroism, and self-sacrifice drifted with her. There were only four survivors.