The Lion´s Disease
PROLOGUE My name is Samuel Diggerson, 3rd officer of the m/s Punjab of London, which you most certainly have heard a lot of, in connection to the famous journey. I hesitated a lot to come forward but finally decided to give a better account than the multitude of wholly inaccurate tales about what happened related to the fate of this ship on the Atlantic & Indian Oceans. This is my story. LONDON HARBOUR A ll this took place only years after the horrendous pandemic, the Covid19 , had paralyzed the world. Economy had been slowing down, and the tricky disease made a lot of people face death, sorrow, hunger, as well as homelessness. In November of this year, Rattner & Rattner, the renowned and prosperous London Shipping Agency, had hired me as an officer onboard the Punjab , a Handysize Geared Bulk Carrier. Minutes after being app...
