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
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
. The “Komet”, the german ship that captured the Goese seamen from the “Devon”. (Picture: Wikimedia Commons) In 1943, seventeen Goan seamen part of the British ship “Devon” crew , captured on 19 August 1941 by the German auxiliary cruiser “Komet” … 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
Luabo (Portugal) Captain: Type:Steam Merchant Tonnage: 1453 GT Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação Homeport: Lisbon Built: Russel & Co, Glasgow (1909) The first lifeboat with 20 castaways from the British City of Canton arrived near Pinda lighthouse on July 18, 1943, just over … Read more
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
