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
Duas Gémeas (Portugal) Captain: José dos Santos Type: Motor fishing boat Tonnage: 9,2 GT Owner: Sociedade Chagas Salgado & Cª Homeport: Setúbal Built: José Amaro Peres (1928) Ilha Graciosa (Portugal) Captain: Alberto de Matos Franco Type: Long Range Fishing Boat Tonnage: Owner: Soc. Armadores … Read More
Cubango (Portugal) Captain: Type: Long Range Steamer Tonnage: 5,727 GT Owner: Companhia Nacional de Navegação Homeport: Lisbon Built: Germany (1903) The Portuguese steamer Cubango was returning to Lisbon when – on September 21, 1942 – the crew spotted a lifeboat with 13 castaways from … Read More
San Miguel (Portugal) Captain: António Dionísio Type: Mixed Steamer Tonnage: Owner: Companhia da Navegação Carregadores Açoreanos Homeport: Built: England On July 19, 1942, at 5.30 pm, the Portuguese steamer San Miguel, en route to the USA, was ordered to stop by U-332, … 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
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
Cunene (Portugal) Captain: António Pinto e Neto Type: Vapor de Carga Tonnage: 5875 TB Owner: Sociedade Geral Homeport: Lisboa Built: Flensburger Schiffsbau, Flensburg, Alemanha (1911) On the dawn of March 27, 1942, the Cunene was sailing between Lisbon, Portugal, and Philadelphia, USA, when the … Read More
Ana I (Portugal) Captain: José Maria de Matos Type: Codfish Cuter Tonnage: 191 Owner: Soc. de Pesca Luso-Brasileira Lda. Homeport: Fugueira da Foz Built: Solvesborg, Suécia (1918) Event: Rescued 13 crew members from the Greek cargo ship Aghios Nicolaos On October 7, 1940 the Portuguese codfish … Read More
Às de Paus (Portugal) Captain: Type: Fishing boat Tonnage: Owner: Homeport: Olhão Built: Pátria e Liberdade (Portugal) Captain: Type: Fishing Steamer Tonnage: 26,15 Gt Owner: Manuel de Brito Homeport: Olhão Built: Vigo (1910) On the night of May 9 to 10, 1941, two Portuguese … 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
