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Below is a list of nearly 60 ships that carried War Brides to Canada between 1942 and 1948. Do you know of any more War Bride Ships or do you have their pictures? Please write to us at www.CanadianWarBrides.com.

List courtesy of Eswyn Lyster. Go to her website!

SHIPS WHICH CARRIED SMALL GROUPS OF WAR BRIDES ON WARTIME SAILINGS

(Including 1945 and Jan 1946 before dedicated WB sailings began):

ANDES
AQUITANIA
ARIA
ARIGUANI
ATHLONE CASTLE
BALTOVER
BATORY
BAYANO
BRITTANIC
CAVINA
DROTTNINGHOLM
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD
EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND
FRANCONIA
ILE DE FRANCE
JAMAICA PRODUCER
LOUIS PASTEUR
MANCHESTER SHIPPER
MATAROA
MAURETANIA
MOSDALE
MYRMIDON (to NY, 1942 then on to Mtl)
NEA HELAS
NIEW AMSTERDAM
QUEEN ELIZABETH 1
QUEEN MARY 1
RANGITATA
SAMARIA
STOCKHOLM
SCYTHIA

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SHIPS USED UNDER THE CANADIAN WIVES BUREAU REPATRIATION of DEPENDENTS, 1946-47:

AQUITANIA
ASCANIA
ATHOS II
CAVINA
DROTTNINGHOLM
EMPIRE BRENT (see LETITIA)
GEORGIC
ILE DE FRANCE
LADY NELSON
LADY RODNEY
LETITIA (renamed EMPIRE BRENT late 1946)
MAURETANIA
QUEEN ELIZABETH 1
QUEEN MARY 1
SAMARIA
SITMA
STAVANGERFIORD
TETELIA
WILLEM RUYS
VOLENDAM (p.305 Rom. to Reality)
POST- CANADIAN WIVES BUREAU arrangements:
ASCANIA
BEAVERBRAE (German fiancées, 1948)
COLUMBIA
EMPRESS OF CANADA (fiancée)
GEORGIC
IVERIA
QUEEN FREDERICA
NO DATE:
SAXONIA

Do you know of any more War Bride Ships?

Please write to us at www.CanadianWarBrides.com

Ship photos provided courtesy of Captain Hubert Hall of SHIPSEARCH (Marine)

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