On a stormy afternoon in September 1889 passengers on a steamer from Liverpool to the Isle of Man caught sight of something unusual in the distance. It turned out to be a leaky lifeboat barely afloat that had been at the mercy of the Irish Sea for almost three days. It contained quite a story.



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