The passenger list included stage and film actor Leslie Howard; Alfred T. Chenhalls, Howard's friend and accountant; British journalist Kenneth Stonehouse, a Washington, D.C. correspondent of Reuters news agency, and his wife Evelyn Peggy Margetts Stonehouse; Rotha Hutcheon and her daughters Petra (11) and Carolina (18 months); Tyrrell Mildmay Shervington, director of Shell-Mex and BP Oil Company in Lisbon; Ivan James Sharp, a senior official of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); Wilfrid Israel, a prominent Anglo-German Jewish activist working to save Jews from the Holocaust; and Gordon Thompson MacLean, an Inspector of British Consulates.