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Court Line has used the name Errington Court for four ships:
Errington Court (2) had a distinguished service history including extensive participation in WW2 convoys and an overall service life of 40 years.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Pre-War WW2 History[edit]
Little information is available other than that Errington Court (2) was laid up for some years at Milford Haven during the depression of the 1930s.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Errington Court 2 participated in 123 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
Service post WW2[edit]
No information currently available.
External resources[edit]
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Data
- 3 Career Highlights
- 4 Pre-War WW2 History
- 5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
- 6 Service post WW2
- 7 External resources
- 8 Images
- 9 Contributors
Court Line has used the name Errington Court for four ships:
- Errington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1909
- Errington Court (2) - a cargo ship completed in 1925 - the topic of this article
- Errington Court (3) - a cargo ship completed in 1945 as Empire Favour
- Errington Court (4) - a cargo ship completed in 1957
Errington Court (2) had a distinguished service history including extensive participation in WW2 convoys and an overall service life of 40 years.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: The United British Steamship Co. Ltd. - Management Haldin and Philipps London
- Builders: Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd.
- Yard: Belfast
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 476
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 148611
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 4,913
- Net tonnage: 2,988
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 396.6 ft
- Breadth: 53.1 ft
- Depth: 26.5 Ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd.
- Works: Belfast
- Country: UK
- Power: N/k
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: 10 knots
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights[edit]
- 23 Apr 1925: Launched
- Jun 1925: Completed
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. (same managers)
- 1947: Sold to Tharros Shipping Co.Ltd. - Managers John Livanos & Sons Ltd. and renamed Tharros
- 1950: Sold to Cia. de Nav. Toula S.A. Panama - Managers Faros Shipping Co. Ltd. London and renamed Athens
- 1954: Sold to Cia. de Nav. San Rocco S.A. Monrovia - Managers Aldgate Shipping Co. Ltd. London and renamed Navidad
- Feb 1965: Broken up in Holland by Hendrik Ido, Ambacht
Pre-War WW2 History[edit]
Little information is available other than that Errington Court (2) was laid up for some years at Milford Haven during the depression of the 1930s.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Errington Court 2 participated in 123 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys | |||
| Convoy No. | Route | Convoy No. | Route |
| SL/MKS.7 | Oct 1939: Freetown - Liverpool | OB.67 | Jan 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed |
| OB.82 | Jan 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | SL/MKS.29 | Apr 1940: Freetown - Liverpool |
| OB.160 | Jun 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | HX.55 | Jul 1940: Halifax - Liverpool |
| OB.198 | Aug 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed 55.31N 16.55W | SC.4 | Sep 1940: Sydney CB - Liverpool |
| OB.233 | Oct 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | SC.13 | Nov 1940: Sydney CB - Liverpool |
| OB.274 | Jan 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed | SC.22 | Feb 1941: Halifax - Liverpool |
| WN.91 | Feb 1941: Clyde - Methil | EN.91/1 | Mar 1941: Methil - Oban |
| FN.439 | Mar 1941: Southend - Methil | FS.426 | Mar 1941: Methil - Southend |
| OB.303 | Mar 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed | FS.555 | Jul 1941: Methil - Southend |
| SC.31 | May 1941: Halifax - Liverpool | OG.65 | Jun 1941: Liverpool - Gibraltar |
| SC.37 | Jul 1941: Sydney CB - Clyde | WN.158 | Jul 1941: Oban - Methil |
| EC.58 | Aug 1941: Southend - Clyde | FN.503 | Aug 1941: Southend - Methil |
| ON.7 | Aug 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 56.31N 42.39W | FS.627 | Oct 1941: Methil - Southend |
| SC.47 | Sep 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool | WN.195 | Oct 1941: Oban - Methil |
| FN.542 | Nov 1941: Southend - Methil | FN.544 | Nov 1941: Southend - Methil |
| FN.548 | Nov 1941: Southend - Methil | EN.6 | Nov 1941: Methil - Oban |
| ON.37 | Nov 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 59.10N 20W | SC.60 | Dec 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool |
| WN.225 | Dec 1941: Oban - Methil | FS.690 | Jan 1942: Methil - Southend |
| EN.38 | Jan 1942: Methil - Oban | FN.613 | Jan 1942: Southend - Methil |
| ON.62 | Feb 1942: Liverpool - Dispersed 45.29N 58.28W | SC.76 | Mar 1942: Halifax - Liverpool |
| BB.164 | Apr 1942: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven | ON.92 | May 1942: Liverpool - Halifax |
| OS/KMS.28 | May 1942: Liverpool - Freetown | GN.20 | Nov 1942: Guantanamo - NYC |
| ZG.11 | Nov 1942: Cristobal - Guantanamo | TAG.18 | Nov 1942: Trinidad - Guantanamo |
| SC.113 | Dec 1942: NYC - Liverpool | OS/KMS.43 | Feb 1943: Liverpool - Freetown |
| HM.114 | Feb 1943: Holyhead - M haven | SR.3/1 | Mar 1943: Freetown - Gibraltar |
| FS.1100 | Apr 1943: Methil - Southend | MKS.11 | Apr 1943: Bone - Liverpool |
| ONS.46 | Apr 1945: Liverpool - Halifax | WN.420 | Apr 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| EN.227 | May 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe | FN.1013 | May 1943: Southend - Methil |
| ONS.8 | May 1943: Liverpool - Halifax | SC.134 | Jun 1943: Halifax - Liverpool |
| FN.1081 | Jul 1943: Southend - Methil | EN.261 | Jul 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| FS.1158 | Jul 1943: Methil - Southend | WN.449 | Jul 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| ONS.15 | Aug 1943: Liverpool - Halifax | SC.141 | Sep 1943: Halifax - Liverpool |
| FS.1225 | Sep 1943: Methil - Southend | WN.481 | Sep 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| EN.293 | Oct 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe | FN.1141 | Oct 1943: Southend - Methil |
| FN.1147 | Oct 1943: Southend - Methil | KMS.30 | Oct 1943: Gibraltar - Port Said |
| KMS.30G | Oct 1943: Liverpool - Gibraltar | MKS.32 | Nov 1943: Port Said - Gibraltar |
| FS.1316 | Dec 1943: Methil - Southend | MKS.33 | Dec 1943: Alexandria - Gibraltar |
| MKS.33G | Dec 1943: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.142 | SL/MKS.142MK | Dec 1943: Rendezvous of SL142 with MKS33 - Liverpool |
| WN.524 | Dec 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil | EN.340 | Jan 1944: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| BW.132 | Sep 1944: Sydney CB - St Johns Nf | FN.1236 | Jan 1944: Southend - Methil |
| OS/KMS.67KM | Feb 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split | KMS.41G | Feb 1944: Ex OS67/ KMS41 - Gibraltar |
| SL/MKS.152MK | Mar 1944: Rendezvous of SL152 with MKS43 - Liverpool | SL/MKS.152 | Mar 1944: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.43 |
| HS.139 | May 1944: Halifax - Sydney CB | ON.236 | May 1944: Liverpool - NYC |
| SB.74 | Aug 1944: Sydney cb - Port au port | BSC.75 | Aug 1944: Port au port - Sydney cb |
| BSC.78 | Sep 1944: Corner brook - Sydney cb | BSC.79 | Sep 1944: Corner brook - Sydney cb |
| BSC.84 | Sep 1944: Corner brook - Sydney cb | BW.132 | Sep 1944: Sydney cb - St johns nf |
| SB.75A | Sep 1944: Sydney cb - Port au port | SB.81 | Sep 1944: Sydney cb - Corner brook |
| SB.83 | Sep 1944: Sydney cb - Port au port | WB.123 | Sep 1944: St johns nf - Sydney cb |
| BW.142 | Oct 1944: Sydney CB - St Johns Nf | BW.145 | Oct 1944: Sydney CB - St Johns Nf |
| BW.142 | Oct 1944: Sydney cb - St johns nf | BW.145 | Oct 1944: Sydney cb - St johns nf |
| SB.85 | Oct 1944: Sydney cb - Corner brook | SB.87 | Oct 1944: Sydney cb - Port au port |
| WB.133 | Oct 1944: St johns nf - Sydney cb | BSC.86 | Oct 1944: Port au port - Sydney cb |
| BSC.88 | Oct 1944: Corner brook - Sydney cb | BSC.90 | Oct 1944: Port au port - Sydney cb |
| BW.147A | Nov 1944: Sydney cb - Wabana | WB.136 | Nov 1944: St johns nf - Sydney cb |
| WB.138 | Nov 1944: St johns nf - Sydney cb | BW.147A | Nov 1944: Sydney CB - Wabana |
| BW.154 | Dec 1944: Sydney CB - St Johns Nf | SH.192 | Dec 1944: Sydney CB - Halifax |
| BW.154 | Dec 1944: Sydney cb - St johns nf | WB.149 | Dec 1944: St johns nf - Sydney cb |
| BX.142 | Jan 1945: Boston - Halifax | XB.140 | Jan 1945: Halifax - Boston |
| SC.167 | Feb 1945: Halifax - Liverpool | BW.174 | Apr 1945: Sydney CB - Wabana |
| BW.174 | Apr 1945: Sydney cb - Wabana | BW.176 | May 1945: Sydney cb - Wabana |
| BW.178 | May 1945: Sydney cb - Wabana | BW.176 | May 1945: Sydney CB - Wabana |
| WB.167 | May 1945: Wabana - Sydney cb |
Service post WW2[edit]
No information currently available.
External resources[edit]
- Information extracted from Lloyds Registers by John Powell
- Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets
- Miramar Ships Index: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
- Arnold Hague Convoy Database: http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/
- From The Allen Collection
- Basic research and construction of entry by Benjidog
- History and basic details by John Powell
