Sun, 3 August 2008  Episode 10 : About 4:30 in the afternoon of November 2, 1942. A fast Dutch luxury liner was torpedoed and sunk some few hundred miles off the coast of South America. Only a few of the more then four hundred persons on the ship survived, and three of them were Basil Izzi, Cornelius van der Slot and Nicko Hoogendam. They were a drift on a raft for 83 days just one day short of 12 weeks before they were pick up by United States Navy. Comments[1] |
