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
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
Wellington Star (GB) Captain: Trevor Williams Type: Motor Merchant Tonnage: 13,212 GT Owner: Blue Star Line Lda. Homeport: Belfast Built: Harland & Wolf, Belfatst At 2:00 p.m. on 23 June 1940, 17 survivors from the Wellington Star, sunk on the 16th by … Read more
Arendskerk (Netherlands) Captain: Cornelis Wijker Type: Motor Merchant Tonnage: 7,907 GT Owner: NV Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Mij Homeport: The Hague Built: Danzing (1938) On the morning of January 17, 1940, the Dutch ship “Poelau Bras” arrived in Lisbon, carrying 62 survivors … Read more
On September 6, 1939, at 2 pm, the tug Europa I left the port of Lisbon for the bay of Cascais where it met the Dutch ship Eidanger carrying shipwrecks from the British freighter Bosnia, sunk the previous day. By … Read more
