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Introduction
Court Line has used the name Ilvington Court for two ships:
- Ilvington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1911 as Dalebank
- Ilvington Court (2) - a cargo ship launched in 1919 as War Sniper - the subject of this entry.
Ilvington Court (2) had a working life of 21 years, although she was laid up for some of this time. She was torpedoed and sunk during WW2.
Basic Data
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: British Shipping Controller London
- Builders: Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd.
- Yard: Kowloon
- Country: China
- Yard number: 562
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 147615
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 5,187
- Net tonnage: 3,222
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 400 ft
- Breadth: 52.8 ft
- Depth: 28.5 ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Single triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd.
- Works: Hong Kong
- Country: Hong Kong
- Power: N/K
- Propulsion: N/K
- Speed: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights
- 17 Mar 1919: Laid down as War Sniper for the British Shipping Controller London
- 1919: Completed for S.H. Issifoglu, Piraeus, Greece as Meandros
- 1920: Sold to Hellenic Transpoert Steamship Co. - Management S.H. Issifoglu and renamed Iolcos
- 1924: Acquired by the United British Steamship Co. Ltd. - Managment Haldin and Phillips and renamed Ilvington Court
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same managers
- 26 Aug 1940: Torpedoed and sunk
History before WW2
No information currently available other than that Ilvington Court (2) was laid up on the Tyne for several years in the 1930s during the depression.
Participation in WW2 Convoys
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #1.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
Ilvington Court took part in 11 convoys in all.
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List of Convoys
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| Convoy No.
| Route
| Convoy No.
| Route
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| BC.37/1
| May 1940: Barry - Quiberon Bay
| FN.20
| Oct 1939: Southend - Methil
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| FS.32
| Nov 1939: Methil - Southend
| HG.1
| Sep 1939: Gibraltar - Liverpool
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| OA.33
| Nov 1939: Southend - Dispersed
| OB.43
| Nov 1939: Liverpool - Dispersed
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| OB.138
| Apr 1940: Liverpool - Formed OG.28F
| OB.183
| Jul 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed
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| SL/MKS.36
| Jun 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
| SL/MKS.23
| Mar 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
|
| 59.X
| May 1940: Verdon - Dispersed
|
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Sinking
Ilvington Court (2) was torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine Dandolo of the Marcello Class, in position 37.14 N, 21.52W with the loss of 8 crew members whilst on a passage from Pepel to Glasgow.
Postscript
Dandolo survived the war and was, according to External resource #3, "discarded" on 23rd March 1947.
External resources
- Miramar ship index
- Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021
- Battleships-cruisers website: Battleships-cruisers
Images
- From The Allen Collection: The Allen Collection
Contributors
- Basic ship information extracted from Lloyds registers by John Powell
- Additional research and construction of page by Benjidog
