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Poon Lim or Lim Poon BEM (March 8, 1918 – January 4, 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.[1][2] Lim was working as second steward on the British merchant ship SS Benlomond when it was sunk by a German U-boat on Nov...