Climbing aboard an empty lifeboat, he is rescued by an mad, epileptic old man piloting a tramp steamer.
On 27 October, an empty lifeboat was found floating near Grand Haven, Michigan.
The Ardazirho, in pursuit of an empty lifeboat.
Later that day they came across one of the Thalia's empty lifeboats, and took on its supplies.
They found some wreckage, and an empty lifeboat that provided a valuable clue.
American aircraft also searched for several days though nothing but debris and five empty lifeboats were found.
They saw two burned and empty lifeboats, the officials said.
They said a Soviet weather ship that went to the area saw only one empty lifeboat.
The useless empty lifeboat left the Rim Star; a derelict which would drift in space until the crack of doom; no human eye would ever see it again.
The empty lifeboats that had defied all the crew's efforts to launch them floated away on their free of their davits at last.