mr. mcintyre. mr. mcintyre's body was never found. i read this story and i thought i want to go and find this wreck. because these wrecked ship don't decay. there's nothing to cause them to decay. they remain there. and also there was now the incredibly lonely grave. so i vowed that i would try to get there eventually. on this -- researching this book, i did. i managed to find -- i happened to be in cape town and i got a flight to the capitol. then i got on a little tiny plane which took me to a remote place. i found a very agreeable man with a land rover. i had the gps reference of where we believe the ship was stranded. no one had seen it. we went up the coast for a number of days. sure enough in the end, we found it. there was the wreck of the old liverpool star with all of it's cargo still around. you open the big wooden boxes and find one the cargoes she was carrying, lightbulb, still unbroken after 60 years in the desert. probably didn't work, but they were still there. the shelter was still there. no the canvas, but the shelter