NigG (your #106),
...That's a horrible slander!...
As I said in my #30: "I do not believe this for one moment, and I hope nobody else will".
...Jeudwine was one of only two who knew how to sail...
Recalls the lifeboats after the sinking of the "Titanic", where Third(?) Officer Lightoller was (I recall reading): "the only seaman of the lot", and got a sail up on his boat.
...The shore party, left behind, hung-on for six weeks...
Would be interesting to know how they survived.
A fascinating story, indeed,
Danny.