a "drunken rash headlong fool" of an Englishman. Sole survivor Allan was only 17 years old when the Anne Forbes hit an iceberg in the Arctic fog somewhere off the coast of Greenland. According to the story Allan told when he returned to Aberdeen in 1764, he was thrown from his lookout point onto the iceberg by the force of the collision. The Anne Forbes, soon after apparently sinking, resurfaced (presumably due to air trapped in the holds of the ship) and was eventually forced onto an underwater ledge of the iceberg where it quickly froze in place. Allan lived for some time in the imprisoned ship before finally escaping. This is remarkably similar to the events that transpired in September 1854 when noted explorer Captain Elisha Kane's ship, the USS Advance, sank in the Arctic seas. In other media Allan Gordon was the main character of Arthur J. Roth's book The Iceberg Hermit. The Adventures of Allan Gordon is the name of a song by The Fall of Troy. On their Live at the Paradox EP (when they were called The Thirty Years' War) guitarist Thomas Erak made reference to 'The Iceberg Hermit' before playing the song. Notes References Further reading Roth, Arthur J. (1974). The Iceberg Hermit. New York, NY: Scholastic. Literary characters introduced in 1818 Fictional sailors Fictional Scottish people