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
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
Alferrarede (Portugal) Captain: Armando Lorena Type: Long range steamer Tonnage: 1452 GT Owner: Sociedade Geral de Comércio Indústria e Transportes Lda. Homeport: Lisbon Built: Germany, 1905 The merchant “Alferrarede” encountered, possibly on 14th August 1941, the 33 crew members of the Yugoslav merchant “Sud”, that had … Read more
