In New York, the war brides formed social clubs that served for decades as their emotional mainstays. On September 3, 1939 a few hours after Britain declared war on Germany, the SS Athenia, a British passenger ship, was torpedoed by U-30. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank , Scotland. There were brides from non-Allied countries, too. Among the 1,302 on board were more than 300 Americans hurrying home. Having endured a devastating war in their homeland — Ms. Guaricci spent seven months sleeping in an air raid shelter during the London blitz — they built close networks and friendships with their fellow war brides. Cunard ships were among the ships used for war service and the most famous of these, RMS Queen Mary was involved from 1946 in helping with the transporting of war brides and their dependents to USA. By 1946, approximately 7000 aliens and citizens, with German, Italian, and Japanese people comprising the largest groups, were detained at Ellis Island. The first batch of war brides (452 British women and their 173 children and one Bridegroom) left Southampton harbor on SS Argentina on January 26, 1946 and arrived in the U.S. on February 4, 1946. Military estimates indicate that 50,000 to 100,000 servicemen wed women from countries of … 1938-1945 After the U.S. entered the war in December 1941, Ellis Island served primarily as a detention center for alien enemies, those considered to be inadmissible and others. It was during such a voyage that the ship made her fastest Atlantic crossing of 3 days, 22 hours and 40 minutes. FindMyPast.com has most of the 1946-47 War Bride Passenger Lists transcribed and they are available on line for a fee. As many as 100,000 war brides were British, 150,000 to 200,000 hailed from continental Europe, and another 16,000 came from Australia and New Zealand. RMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner of Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She was launched on 21 April 1913 [4] and sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914. 118 passengers and crew were killed in the initial explosion or …

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