Word: rooseboom
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Murder in the Bow. In The Boat, it was every man for himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged...
...strongest personalities aboard the death ship was a Mrs. Nunn, the widow of a British colonial officer who went down with the Rooseboom. She became a sort of spiritual mother for the derelicts. A few days before she died, she took a Bible that someone had salvaged and read a religious service to all her companions. Not long after that, Gibson organized a counterattack against the murder gang and threw them overboard...
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