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M/T Pan Aruba To Pan Aruba on the "Ships starting with P" page. Manager: Leif Høegh & Co. A/S, Oslo Completed in Febr.-1931 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Newcastle.
Pan Aruba was in Convoy HX 163 (departed Halifax on Dec. 3-1941) together with the Norwegian Andrea Brøvig, Haakon Hauan, Ringstad, Harpefjell, Ørnefjell, Ranja, Høegh Giant, and Thorshøvdi. In March-1942, she can be found among the ships in Convoy HX 182 (several Norwegian), and in June that year she's listed as sailing in Convoy HX 195 from Halifax. Christmas of 1942 was spent in Convoy HX 219, leaving New York on Dec. 13, arriving Liverpool on the 29th. Pan Aruba was bound for Avonmouth with gasoline, station 93. The following summer she sailed in Convoy HX 249, which left New York for the U.K. on July 23-1943. Her destinationn is again given as Avonmouth, and she had station 122 of the convoy. In a document I have for Convoy GUS 33 from Port Said, there's a ship which looks like it could be Pan Aruba (the document is a little blurry and hard to decipher, so I'm not 100% sure. Further down on the document it looks more like Pan Amba). This convoy, which had a number of Norwegian ships, departed Port Said on March 5-1944 and arrived Hampton Roads on Apr. 4, but many ships had other destinations and left the convoy along the way. In fact, Pan Aruba (or Pan Amba?) left the convoy for Algiers on March 14, as did the Norwegian Hjalmar Wessel, which had joined GUS 33 from Augusta on March 11. More information on all the other Norwegian ships mentioned here can be found with the help of the alphabet index at the end of this page.
Sold in May-1948 to Rederi-A/B Hans von Rettig (manager Wilh Bensow O/Y), Finland, placed in the ownership of Rederi-A/B Re-be (manager G. Damström), Finland, and renamed Aruba. Reverted to Rederi-A/B Hans von Rettig in 1956. Sold in 1959 to the Yugoslavian shipbreakers Brodospas, and during May that year she was delivered at Split, Yugoslavia for demolition. Related external links: To Pan Aruba on the "Ships starting with P" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Misc. sources, incl. Leif Høegh & Co. fleet list.
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