Sinnington Court

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Introduction

Court Line used the name Sinnington Court for just one ship. She had a service history of 33 years, which included a distinguished record of service in WW2 convoys. Having lived through the war she was sold to Japanese owners and traded for a further 10 years before sinking during a typhoon.

Basic Data

• Type: Cargo ship
• Registered owners,managers and operators: The United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - managers Haldin and Phillipps Ltd.
• Builders: Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd.
• Yard: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Country: UK
• Yard number: 1,039
• Registry: N/K
• Official number: 160574
• Signal letters: N/K
• Call sign: GSQR
• Classification society: N/K
• Gross tonnage: 6,910
• Net tonnage: 4,335
• Deadweight: N/K
• Length: 420.1 ft
• Breadth: 53.5 ft
• Depth: 27.25 Ft
• Draught: N/K
• Engines: Triple expansion steam engine - 3 Cylinders with diameters 27", 45" & 76" and bore 51"
• Engine builders: J.G.Kincaid & Co. Ltd.
• Works: Greenock
• Country: UK
• Power: N/k
• Propulsion: Single screw
• Speed: 10
• Boilers: N/K
• Cargo capacity:N/K
• Crew: N/K

• Employment: General purpose cargo vessel

Career Highlights

• 16 Aug 1928: Launched
• Sep 1928: Completed
• 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same managers
• 1951: Sold to Hinode Kisen K.K. Toykon Japan and renamed Atago Maru
• 1955: Sold to Miyachi Kisen K.K., Kobe Japan and renamed Fukuzan Maru
• 26 Oct 1961: Sunk in a typhoon.

Pre-War History

No information currently available other than that Sinnington Court was laid up at Sunderland for a number of years during the depression of the 1930s.

Participation in WW2 Convoys

The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Sinnington Court participated in 88 convoys.

A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names

External resource #2 states that Sinnington Court recued most of the survivors of the Blue Funnel Line ship Pyrrus, which was acting as Vice Commodore if convoy OG18 for Gibraltar when she was torpedoed and sunk on 17 February 1940. The convoy had only two small French warships as escort.

Service post WW2

It is understood that Sinnington Court (then named Fukuzan Maru) sank 60 miles north of Saipan after the hull split during a typhoon but not futher details have been located to date.

External resource #3 states: foundered 16.50N/146.46E 26.10.61

External resources

1. Information extracted from Lloyds Registers by John Powell
2. Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets
3. Miramar Ships Index: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
4. Arnold Hague Convoy Database: http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/

Images

1. By permission of A.Duncan

Contributors

1. Basic research and construction of entry by Benjidog
2. History and basic details by John Powell and Clive Ketley
3. Callsign and engine bore size from Ruud