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The boat by John Groth is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The boat about?
x, 101 pages 22 cm "This is a true eyewitness account of the harrowing voyage of 135 people in an open lifeboat, from which only 4 survived" The Dutch Steamer Rooseboom was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and only one lifeboat got away weighed down with over a hundred people. Only four people survived the next twenty-six days: two mad Japanese, a Chinese girl and Walter Gibson of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. This is his story Autobiographical Originally published, London: W.H. Allen, 1952
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Groth
- Publisher
- Boston, Houghton Mifflin
- Published
- 1953
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.49 / 5 (173 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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