My late father was ARIGUANI's captain in 1946, when she travelled to the West Indies. ARIGUANI carried one of the first cargoes of bananas to the UK after the war. Bernard de Neumann > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Finch [mailto:mariners-l@efinch90.fsnet.co.uk] > Sent: 30 April 2006 07:02 > To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TSL] Ship ARIQUANI - England to Montreal, 1945 > > Hello Mike, > > This was Elders & Fyffes passenger and banana ship ARIGUANI. She was an > aircraft catapult ship during the war used for convoy escort work and was > torpedoed and badly damaged in 1941. Abandoned but later reboarded and > towed > to Gibraltar for repair. Photo at http://iancoombe.tripod.com/id14.html > > She is listed on the Canadian war brides site at > http://www.canadianwarbrides.com/ships-list.asp > > Sorry but I have no info on passenger lists. > > regards > Ted > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Guest" <m.guest@sympatico.ca> > To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:51 AM > Subject: [TSL] Ship ARIQUANI - England to Montreal, 1945 > > > > This is a lot more recent than most people's searches, but I'm looking > for > > > > what ever information I can get on passenger lists, etc for a ship > called > > St. > > > > Ariquani (I believe that's the correct spelling). > > > > > > > > It was a converted troop carrier that was used to bring passengers > > > > from England to Canada after WWII. My father was a Canadian soldier and > > > > married my mom in England. I have a note that says they landed in > Montreal > > > > on Aug 26th, 1945 on the above ship. The only info I've been able to > find > > online is > > > > a mention that a ship by the same name arrived in Gibralter on Nov 3, > > 1941. > > I've checked > > > > on the ship based sites that I've got but found nothing that current. > Any > > > > ideas? > > > > > > > > Mike Guest > > > > London, ON > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > > TheShipsList Searchable Archives Database > > http://www.oulton.com/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date > > TheShipsList RootsWeb Archives > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TheShipsList/ > > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > TheShipsList Searchable Archives Database > http://www.oulton.com/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date > TheShipsList RootsWeb Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TheShipsList/ > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*