Gartavon (GB) Captain: George Smith Hunter Type: Steam Merchant Tonnage: 1,777 GT Owner: Gart Line Ldt. Homeport: Glasgow Built: Liverpool The 24 castaways from the English merchant ship Gartavon arrived at the port of Horta, in the Azores, aboard the Swedish steamer Castor on … Read more
Mangen (Sweden) Captain: Type: Coal Ship Tonnage: 1885 GT Owner: O. F. Ahlmark & Co. Eftf Homeport: Built: (1922) The Swedish freighter Garm entered Lisbon in the early hours of Christmas Eve 1940, carrying on board 12 survivors from the Mangen, … Read more
French Resistance Fighter Birth place – Saint Hilaire Cottes Birth date – 25/07/1923 Death date – 03/11/1942 Father – Joseph de Lima Mother – Jeanne Lanniaux Albert de Lima fought in the resistance after the invasion of France by the German … Read more
French Resistance Fighter Birth place – Vila Flor, Portugal Birth date – 22/04/1906 Death date – 04/11/1942 Father – Mother – Camille Lopes ou Camille dos Santos José dos Santos was a member of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Français … Read more
Alexandre Silva (Portugal) Captain: Type: Cargo Ship Tonnage: 1746 TB GT Owner: Companhia União Fabril Homeport: Lisbon Built: 1942 – Lisbon Shortly after noon on April 20, 1944, the Portuguese ship Alexandre Silva found three shipwrecked sailors from the Greek freighter Peleus on a … Read more
Meggie (Sweden) Captain: Fritz Johnsen Type: Steam Cargo Ship Tonnage: 1583 Tb GT Owner: Emil Johnsson Homeport: Built: Richardson, Duck & Co, Ldt – UK On November 4, 1940, ten survivors from the Swedish cargo ship “Meggie”, which had been sunk on … Read more
Corte Real Captain: José Narciso Marques Júnior Type: Merchant Steamer Tonnage: 2,043 GT Owner: Companhia de Navegação Carregadores Açoreanos Port: Ponta Delgada Built: Netherlands Jorge Soares de Andrade, the first officer of the Corte Real, was shocked by the order from the … Read more
. . We don’t know why they play or for whom they play. We know there are four of them, possibly friends, playing music for other friends. We also know that it was in Aveiro, one day in 1943, … Read more
Saylor on the Panamian ship “Boka” Birth place – Santo Antão, Cape Verde Birth date – Death date – Father – Mother – António da Silva Júnior disappeared when the Panamanian ship “Boka,” on which he was a … Read more
Antonis Georgandis (Greece) Captain: Type: Steam Merchant Tonnage: 3,557 GT Owner: Georgandis Bros Homeport: Pireaeus Built: NV Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij, Rotterdam Information about the Antonis Georgandis is scarce, but in Yolanda Corsépios’s Boock, “The War Wasn’t There” – a portrait of her … Read more
