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 Gonçalves Zarco (Portugal) Captain: Joaquim Marques Esparteiro (Cap-Frag.) Type: Sloop Tonnage: 1784 t Owner: Portuguese Navy Homeport: Lisboa Built: Hawthorn-Leslie, England (1933) To avoid misunderstandings that could have serious consequences as they were living a wartime period, the Portuguese Navy sloop Gonçalves … 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) At 12:10 am on December 2, 1942, a rescue-boat with 22 castaways from the Greek ship Cleanthis, sunk … Read more
Ship – Evanthia (Greece) Birth place – Birth date – Death date – Father – Mother – António Vicente was a crew member of the Greek ship Evanthia, sunk in the Mozambique Channel on November 28, 1942. In … Read more
Angoche II (Portugal) Captain: Type: Tonnage: Owner: Homeport: Built: On June 13, 1942, 41 castaways from the Cliftonhall – sunk the day before by the Japanese submarine I-16 – entered the city of António Enes, in Mozambique. It is not … 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 was returning to Mozambique towing whaleboats with shipwrecked of the British freighter Mahronda, when … 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
NRP Gonçalves Zarco (Portugal) Captain: Cap. Frag. Nuno Frederico Brion Type: Sloop Tonnage: 1784 t Owner: Portuguese Navy Homeport: Lisboa Built: Hawthorn-Leslie, England (1933) On June 13, 1942, at 4:15 pm, northwest of the island of Bazaruto, in the Mozambique Channel, the 2nd … Read more
