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Man Overboard! Man Overboard! Trolling through today's excessively expensive Daily Telegraph (it costs £3 here) I ran into this story that you all may have some comments about. I appologise in advance if it has already been raised as a thread.
A castaway has been found drifting on a makeshift raft in the Skagerrak. Geo. Williams, who speaks English with an eastern European accent has been traced to London where he was apparently living rough before dissaperaing 2 months ago. He said he had been drifting for 4 days before being picked up by a Nowegian tanker after being thrown overbaord from a British ship.
Now this doesn't sound too much like the Merch spirit I've witnessed in the past and even allowing for "progress" in mores I still find it hard to believe that sailors would chuck a guy over the side even in a flat calm. In any event I don't think he would have been able to assemble his nicely constructed, 4 X 44 gal barrel, star shaped raft while treading water. Any thoughts?
A castaway has been found drifting on a makeshift raft in the Skagerrak. Geo. Williams, who speaks English with an eastern European accent has been traced to London where he was apparently living rough before dissaperaing 2 months ago. He said he had been drifting for 4 days before being picked up by a Nowegian tanker after being thrown overbaord from a British ship.
Now this doesn't sound too much like the Merch spirit I've witnessed in the past and even allowing for "progress" in mores I still find it hard to believe that sailors would chuck a guy over the side even in a flat calm. In any event I don't think he would have been able to assemble his nicely constructed, 4 X 44 gal barrel, star shaped raft while treading water. Any thoughts?