>>6677842 (lb/pb)
>"White Squall".
>A training ship.
Unfortunately, the "unboarding" was involuntary, and it was done in the lifeboats.
In 1959, Albatross was sold to the husband and wife team of Christopher Sheldon and Dr. Alice Sheldon.
On the morning of May 2, 1961, Albatross was hit with a white squall (a microburst) about 125 miles west of the Dry Tortugas. Heeling over and sinking in a matter of seconds, taking six lives including Dr. Sheldon. The remainder of the crew took to the lifeboats and were rescued.
http://www.oceannavigator.com/July-August-2013/July-August-2013-Issue-211-White-squall/
Sheldon rings a bell. Digging.
And the symbolism of the Albatross is stirred into the mix somehow, need more eyes on it.
"An albatross around one's neck"
This popular idiom is an allusion to English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798), in which an albatross is shot by the eponymous mariner, bringing feelings of insurmountable guilt upon him and disaster upon his crew:
Ah! Well-a-day! What evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung,