Lourenço Marques (Portugal) Captain: Type: Passenger Steamer Tonnage: 6,281 Gt Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação (CNN) Homeport: Lisboa Built: Blohm & Voss, Germany (1905) On March 14, 1943, the crew of the Portuguese steamer Lourenço Marques – traveling from the city of … 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
Nacala (Portugal) Captain: Type: Thug Boat Tonnage: 2072 gt Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação Homeport: Lisbon Construção: England (1886) On the morning of June 12, 1942, the tugboat Nacala entered the port of Mozambique, pulling three whaleboats with castaways from the British steamer … Read more
Argus (Portugal) Captain: João Pereira Ramalheira Type: Cod Lugger Tonnage: 696 Owner: Parceria Geral das Pescas Homeport: Lisboa Built: Hensdem (Nederland) The crew of the Portuguese Argus, on the way from North Sidney, Nova Scotia, to the cod banks of Greenland, sighted, on … Read more
Almirante Sousa e Faro (Portugal) Captain: José André dos Santos Type: Rescue Boat Tonnage: Owner: Portuguese Rescue Institute (ISN) Homeport: Peniche Built: The attack on the British freighter Dago, carried out by a Luftwaffe Fw 200 Condor, was seen from land, leading … Read more
Angola (Portugal) Captain: Nazareth Cardoso Type: Long Range Steamer Tonnage: 7884 Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação Homeport: Lisboa/ Lisbon Built: Bélgica, 1912 Event: On 4 may 1941 it rescued 43 shipwreked from the ship “Wray Castle” sunk the day before. The passenger ship “Angola” travelled … Read more
Gorgulho (Portugal) Captain: António João Pereira Type: Motor Merchant Tonnage: Owner: Parceria Geral de Pescarias Homeport: Lisbon Built: Event: Picked up 21 survivors form the “Aurillac” Sunk by the Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli on 15 April 1941. At 3.25 am on April 25, … Read more
Nyassa (Portugal) Captain: Bettencourt Type: Tonnage: Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação Homeport: Lisboa Built: Event: Rescued 23 crew members from the British Andaluzian, sunk by U.106. The “Nyassa” was returning from a trip to the African colonies when, on 20 March 1941, they … Read more
Tarrafal (Cabo Verde, Portugal) Captain: Type: Coastal Steamer, water tanker Tonnage: 111,82 Owner: Ferro & Comp Ld Homeport: São Vicente, Cabo Verde Built: Leith, England (1930) Event: Found on the 1 June 1941 85 survivors from the British merchant “Clan Macdougall”, sunk the day … Read more
Mirandella (Portugal) Capitão: J.(?) Oliveira Type: Long Range Merchant Steamer Tonnage: 5179 Owner: Sociedade Geral de Comércio Indústria e Transportes Lda. Homeport: Lisboa Built: Gemany, 1906 Event: They found a lifeboat with survivors of the “Queen Maud” but when they wanted to … Read more
