A normal day for a Victoria Welshman.
On the night of 17 November, off the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa, an uncontrollable fire broke out on the wooden sailing ship, resulting in all but three of the 479 passengers and crew losing their lives.
Yet had it not been for Twm's experience - including urging them to drink the blood of those who had already died - not even those survivors would have made it back to Britain to tell the tale after ten days adrift in a lifeboat.
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