At about 4.30 in the afternoon of November 2nd 1942 a fast Dutch cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk a few hundred miles off the coast of South America. Only a few of the 400 men on the ship survived and one of them, Basil Dominic Izzy seaman second class of the United States navy was found on a raft in mid ocean nearly three months after the sinking This is the story of Izzy and his companions..