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Today In History auf Twitter: "5 April 1943: Chinese steward Poon Lim, who was serving on the British merchant ship SS Ben Lomond, is found near Brazil by #fishermen after being at
![133 days at sea in an eight foot raft. Meet Poon Lim | JOE is the voice of Irish people at home and abroad 133 days at sea in an eight foot raft. Meet Poon Lim | JOE is the voice of Irish people at home and abroad](https://m0.joe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/story_28679_poon-lim-iii.jpg)
133 days at sea in an eight foot raft. Meet Poon Lim | JOE is the voice of Irish people at home and abroad
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