by an officer of the Royal Naval
Volunteer Reserve
Here is the unvarnished story of a voyage believed to be without precedent in naval history. The speaker was in charge of a lifeboat which got away after the sinking of a British liner by a German raider in the South Atlantic. Though many of the eighty-three people on board the lifeboat died, she reached Brazil with the survivors twenty-three days later, after covering 1,500 miles.