Rio Claro (GB) Captain: John Ainsley Robson Type: Steam Merchant Tonnage: 4086 Gt Owner: Thompson Steamshipping Co Ltd, London Homeport: London Built: Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks, UK (1922) On 11 September 1939, the Dutch ship Stad Maastricht entered the port of Faial, in the … Read more
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
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
