![]() ![]() You won't want to stop reading to see how it all turned out. Gaynor's marvelous research and writing style. THE LAST LIFEBOAT is based on true events and tells us this heartbreaking story through Ms. ![]() We follow Alice, the children, and other adults as they wait for a rescue boat for eight days in the rough waters. Why are they the only lifeboat in this vast ocean? How did the other lifeboats make it to safety or did they? There were no other lifeboats in the water except Lifeboat Number 12 that had been miscounted and mixed up with another lifeboat that was thought to have been rescued. What horrible news for the parents whose children were on the ship. This left everyone scrambling to the lifeboats as they watched the ship sink along with those who didn't make it out. ![]() The SS Carlisle was surrounded by a convoy of Royal Navy ships that were to protect the SS Carlisle from German U-boats, but the ship was torpedoed and sunk. Alice King and Lily Nichols had never met until the day Alice volunteered to be an escort for her children and other children on the SS Carlisle (SS City of Benares) from London to Canada. ![]()
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