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
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
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
Fafe (Portugal) Captain: Type: Arrastão Trawler Tonnage: Owner: Homeport: Built: Azevedo Gomes (Portugal) Captain: Type: Trawler Tonnage: 296 GT Owner: Soc. de Pescadores Arrábida, Lda. Homeport: Lisbon Built: Bremerhaven, Germany Alfacinha (Portugal) Captain: Type: Trawler Tonnage: 359 GT Owner: Comp. Portuguesa de Pesca … 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
