NRP Gonçalves Zarco (Portugal) Captain: Zola da Silva (Cap-Frag.) Type: Sloop Tonnage: 1784 t Owner: Portuguese Navy Homeport: Lisboa Built: Hawthorn-Leslie, England (1933) Shortly after 22:00 on 18 July 1944, light signals and flares were spotted from the Portuguese sloop Gonçalves Zarco, fired … Read more
Palmella (GB) Captain: Joseph Every Type: Mercante a vapor – Steam Merchant Tonnage: 1578 TB GT Owner: Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool Homeport: Liverpool Built: Ramage & Ferguson Ltd, Leith (1920) The Spanish ship “Navemar” entered the Tagus river on 6 December … Read more
Ekatontarchos Dracoulis (Greece) Captain: Type: Steam Merchant Tonnage: 7511 GT Owner: George A. Dracoulis Homeport: Ithaka Built: UK (1918) On the afternoon of January 22, 1940, the Spanish trawler Anton Fontana anchored off Peniche, carrying 10 crew members from the Greek … Read more
Rio Claro (GB) Captain: John Ainsley Robson Type: Steam Merchant Tonnage: 4086 Gt Owner: Thompson Steamshipping Co Ltd, London Homeport: London Built: Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks, UK (1922) On 11 September 1939, the Dutch ship Stad Maastricht entered the port of Faial, in the … Read more
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
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
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
British Endeavour (GB) Captain: Thomas Weatherhead Type: Steam tanker Tonnage: 4,580 GT Owner: British Tanker Co Ltd, London Homeport: London Built: W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne The 33 survivors of the British Endeavour arrived in Funchal, Madeira, on 26 February 1940 aboard … Read more
