NRP Gonçalves Zarco (Portugal) Captain: Joaquim Marques Esparteiro (Cap-Frag.) Type: Sloop Tonnage: 1784 t Owner: Portuguese Navy Homeport: Lisboa Built: Hawthorn-Leslie, England (1933) To avoid misunderstandings that could have serious consequences as they were living a wartime period, the Portuguese Navy sloop Gonçalves … Read More
Lourenço Marques (Portugal) Captain: Type: Passenger Steamer Tonnage: 6,281 Gt Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação (CNN) Homeport: Lisboa Built: Blohm & Voss, Germany (1905) At 12:10 am on December 2, 1942, a rescue-boat with 22 castaways from the Greek ship Cleanthis, sunk … Read More
NRP Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal) Captain: Caetano Coucello (Capitão de Mar e Guerra) Type: Sloop Tonnage: 2475 Gt Owner: Portuguese Navy Homeport: Lisbon Built: Hawthorne Leslie, Newcastle, GB (1935) On the night of November 13, 1942, the watch officer aboard the Portuguese … Read More
Ship: Nagpore (GB) Birth place – Mormugão (Portuguese India) Birth date – 1906 (?) Death date – Father – Mother – Francisco de Sousa, 36, was one of the survivors of the English ship Nagpore, sunk on October … Read More
Ship: Nagpore (GB) Birth place – Margão (Portuguese India) Birth date – 1926 (?) Death date – Father – Mother – Arcelino da Silva, 16, was one of the survivors of the English freighter Nagpore, when it was sunk … Read More
Mouzinho (Portugal) Captain: Paulo Batista (?) Type: Long Range Steamer Tonnage: 5830 GT Owner: Companhia Colonial de Navegação Homeport: Luanda Built: Kiel, Alemanha (1907) It was around 3:30 pm on October 5, 1942, when the Portuguese steamer Mouzinho, traveling between Funchal and … Read More
Ship: Stureborg (Sweden) Birth place – Birth date – Death date – Father – Mother – Alfredo da Silva Martins was on board the Swedish neutral freighter Stureborg, traveling under the flag of the International Red Cross, when … Read More
Portuguese civilian living in France Birth place – Birth date – Death date – Father – Mother – João Emílio Pereira was shot by the Germans on April 14, 1944, at the Weimar-Buchenwald camp. The information of his … Read More
Duas Gémeas (Portugal) Captain: José dos Santos Type: Motor fishing boat Tonnage: 9,2 GT Owner: Sociedade Chagas Salgado & Cª Homeport: Setúbal Built: José Amaro Peres (1928) Ilha Graciosa (Portugal) Captain: Alberto de Matos Franco Type: Long Range Fishing Boat Tonnage: Owner: Soc. Armadores … Read More
Sargent US Army Air Forces Unit – Birth place – Fall River, Mass. Birth date – 30/09/1919 Death date – 20/09/2002 Father – Herman Sousa Pacheco Mother – The Portuguese-descendant and Technical-Sargeant Herman Sousa Pacheco Jr. was a gunner … Read More
