Tavčar Zorko

Zorko Tavčar (Dutovlje, 4 September 1910– Trieste, April 1996).

 

In 1927 he enrolled at the Nautical School in Trieste. Only a year later, however, he fled to Yugoslavia and continued his studies at the Nautical School in Bakar, but was soon excluded from it. He concluded nautical studies in Kotor in 1932–1933 and joined Pomorska plovidba shipping company at Sušak. In 1934 he boarded the ship Zvir and sailed on its board till 1937. On 20 December 1937 he passed the exams for Merchant Navy Lieutenant and boarded, in Rotterdam, the ship Rečina as Second Officer. He sailed with her until 11 April 1943, when sunk. The beginning of the war he found himself in London, while on 6 April, when the war broke out in Yugoslavia, he happened to be in Peking (PMSMP, documentation Yugoslav Royal Merchant Navy, Slovenian Merchant Navy). The ship then sailed, until sunk, between Australia and Malay Archipelago. At the end of 1943 he boarded the ship Olga Topić, with which he then sailed till 1945. After the war he returned home via Venice and worked in the naval section of PPNOO in Trieste until 1947. A year earlier he passed Captain's licence exam and was in 1947 appointed Director of the Agmarit Maritime Agency, which he then led until 1951. He returned to Trieste and founded in 1952 his own Agenzia marittima Mediterranea, where he worked till 1978.

 

Nadja Terčon

 

(PMSMP, documentation Yugoslav Royal Merchant Navy (MZ)