To save themselves, the three strongest decided to eat the fourth, the 17 year-old cabin boy.
He started as a cabin boy, and worked himself up to first mate by 1859.
He first went to sea as a cabin boy in 1544.
Allan first found employment as a cabin boy and later as a sailor, which remained his occupation for the following five years.
He first took to seafaring at the age of twelve serving as cabin boy in a coasting vessel.
The cabin boy warns of their impending doom and calls for a few of them to charge the deck and oust the captains.
Swartenhondt started his career on the merchant fleet, becoming a cabin boy at age eleven.
There are five other survivors, a woman, 2 young children, a cabin boy and the second mate.
