That is a long-range cordless drill circa 1860. They were eventually replaced by modern battery powered models due to lack of accuracy in hole position and the need to buy a completely new tool to drill different sized holes.

renderanything: exactly. Here I was thinking this was an epic tale of survival just to realize that "cranked" is semantically different from "fired". Not where I come from it isn't, but there apparently. An engine that "turns over by hand" after that amount of time is neither surprising nor unexpected. It certainly is not newsworthy.