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Court Line used the name Framlington Court for three ships:
Framlington Court (2) had a 34 year service history and a remarkable record serving in WW2 convoys.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
History Pre-WW2[edit]
No information currently available.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
Astonishingly, Framlington Court took part in 95 convoys during WW2 and must have had a charmed life!
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4.
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 is currently available other than the changes of name from 1945 onwards.
External resources[edit]
Images[edit]
Contributors[edit]
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Data
- 3 Career Highlights
- 4 History Pre-WW2
- 5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
- 6 Service post WW2
- 7 External resources
- 8 Images
- 9 Contributors
Court Line used the name Framlington Court for three ships:
- Framlington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1909
- Framlington Court (2) - a cargo ship completed in 1924 - the topic of this article
- Framlington Court (3) - a cargo ship completed in 1952
Framlington Court (2) had a 34 year service history and a remarkable record serving in WW2 convoys.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin and Phillipps
- Builders: Napier & Miller
- Yard: Old Kilpatrick Glasgow
- Country: UK
- Yard number:239
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 147622
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 4,888
- Net tonnage: 2,989
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 396ft 5in
- Breadth: 53ft 4in
- Depth: 26ft Sin
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Joh G. Kincaid & Co. Ltd.
- Works: Greenock
- Country: UK
- Power: N/K nhp
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: 9
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights[edit]
- 1924: Launched
- 20 Mar 1924: Completed
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same managers
- 1945: Sold to Stanhope Shipping Company and renamed Stancourt
- 1952: Sold to Landsdown & Col Hong Kong and renamed Landscape
- 1952: Sold to an unknown company in Manilla Phillipines and renamed Ami Banker
- 1953: Laid up in Hong Kong
- 1958: Sold to Eddie Steamship Company of China and renamed Ally
- June 1958: Broken up in Keelung in Taiwan
History Pre-WW2[edit]
No information currently available.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
Astonishingly, Framlington Court took part in 95 convoys during WW2 and must have had a charmed life!
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4.
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 |
| HX.3 | Sep 1939: Halifax - Liverpool | BC.11R | Oct 1939: Loire - Bristol Channel |
| OB.35 | Nov 1939: Liverpool - Dispersed | SL/MKS.20F | Feb 1940: Freetown - Liverpool |
| SL/MKS.20 | Feb 1940: Freetown - Joined SL.20F | OB.120 | Mar 1940: Liverpool - Formed OG.24 |
| OG.24 | Apr 1940: Formed at sea - Gibraltar | SL/MKS.36 | Jun 1940: Freetown - Liverpool |
| FN.220 | Jul 1940: Southend - Methil | FN.266 | Aug 1940: Southend - Methil |
| OA.207 | Aug 1940: Methil - Dispersed | FS.316 | Oct 1940: Methil - Southend |
| HX.78 | Oct 1940: Halifax - Liverpool | EN.31/1 | Nov 1940: Methil - Oban |
| FN.337 | Nov 1940: Southend - Methil | OB.253 | Dec 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed |
| OB.276 | Jan 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed | SC.24 | Feb 1941: Halifax - Liverpool |
| WN.101 | Mar 1941: Clyde - Methil | OB.317 | Apr 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 51.50N 23.34W |
| SC.33 | Jun 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool | OG.67 | Jul 1941: Milford Haven - Gibraltar |
| SC.45 | Sep 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool | ON.33 | Nov 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 43.30N 55.20W |
| SC.61 | Dec 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool | WN.228 | Jan 1942: Oban - Methil |
| WN.248 | Feb 1942: Oban - Methil | EN.46 | Feb 1942: Methil - Oban |
| OS/KMS.21 | Mar 1942: Liverpool - Freetown | SL/MKS.111 | May 1942: Freetown - Liverpool |
| BB.187 | Jun 1942: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven | OS/KMS.34 | Jul 1942: Liverpool - Freetown |
| SL/MKS.121 | Sep 1942: Freetown - Liverpool | WN.340 | Sep 1942: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| EN.146 | Oct 1942: Methil - Loch Ewe | EN.147 | Oct 1942: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| ON.138 | Oct 1942: Liverpool - NYC | SC.109 | Nov 1942: NYC - Liverpool |
| ON.158 | Jan 1943: Liverpool - NYC | SR.3/1 | Mar 1943: Freetown - Gibraltar |
| BB.284 | Apr 1943: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven | MKS.11 | Apr 1943: Bone - Liverpool |
| KX.10 | May 1943: Liverpool - Gibraltar | MKS.15G | Jun 1943: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.131 |
| SL/MKS.131MK | Jun 1943: Rendezvous of SL131 with MKS15 - Liverpool | FS.1161 | Jul 1943: Methil - Southend |
| WN.450 | Jul 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil | EN.298 | Oct 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| FN.1158 | Oct 1943: Southend - Methil | OS/KMS.57KM | Oct 1943: Liverpool - Convoy Split |
| KMS.31 | Nov 1943: Gibraltar - Port Said | KMS.31G | Nov 1943: Ex OS57/ KMS31 - Gibraltar |
| MKS.33 | Dec 1943: Alexandria - Gibraltar | MKS.34G | Dec 1943: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.143 |
| SL/MKS.143MK | Dec 1943: Rendezvous of SL143 with MKS34 - Liverpool | WN.528A | Jan 1944: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| FS.1326 | Jan 1944: Methil - Southend | FS.1338 | Jan 1944: Methil - Southend |
| OS/KMS.68KM | Feb 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split | EN.344 | Feb 1944: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| FN.1259 | Feb 1944: Southend - Methil | KMS.42 | Feb 1944: Gibraltar - Port Said |
| KMS.42G | Feb 1944: Ex OS68/ KMS42 - Gibraltar | GUS.34 | Mar 1944: Port Said - Hampton Roads |
| MKS.44 | Mar 1944: Port Said - Gibraltar | MKS.44G | Apr 1944: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.153 |
| SL/MKS.153MK | Apr 1944: Rendezvous of SL153 with MKS44 - Liverpool | OS/KMS.80KM | Jun 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split |
| KMS.54 | Jun 1944: Gibraltar - Port Said | KMS.54G | Jun 1944: Ex OS80/ KMS54 - Gibraltar |
| MKS.55 | Jul 1944: Port Said - Gibraltar | MKS.56G | Jul 1944: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.165 |
| SL/MKS.165MK | Jul 1944: Rendezvous of SL165 with MKS56 - Liverpool | FS.1544 | Aug 1944: Methil - Southend |
| EN.428 | Aug 1944: Methil - Loch Ewe | WN.619 | Aug 1944: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| FN.1462 | Aug 1944: Southend - Methil | ON.251 | Sep 1944: Liverpool - NYC |
| QS.94 | Sep 1944: Red islet - Sydney cb | SQ.93 | Sep 1944: Sydney cb - Father pt |
| SC.158 | Oct 1944: Halifax - Liverpool | ONS.36 | Nov 1944: Liverpool - Halifax |
| BX.139 | Dec 1944: Boston - Halifax | XB.136 | Dec 1944: Halifax - Boston |
| BTC.42 | Jan 1945: Milford Haven - Southend | SC.164 | Jan 1945: Halifax - Liverpool |
| ONS.42 | Feb 1945: Liverpool - Halifax | TBC.58 | Feb 1945: Southend - Milford Haven |
| MH.20/2 | Feb 1945: M haven - Clyde | NG.496 | Mar 1945: NYC - Guantanamo |
| XB.149 | Mar 1945: Halifax - Cape Cod Canal | NG.496 | Mar 1945: Nyc - Guantanamo |
| BX.159 | Apr 1945: Boston - Halifax | GN.199 | Apr 1945: Guantanamo - NYC |
| SC.175 | May 1945: Halifax - Liverpool |
Service post WW2[edit]
No information is currently available other than the changes of name from 1945 onwards.
External resources[edit]
- Information extracted from Lloyds Registers
- Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021
- Miramar Ship Index: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
- Arnold Hague Convoy Database: http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/
Images[edit]
- The Allen Collection: The Allen Collection
Contributors[edit]
- Initial information provided by Clive Ketley and John Powell
- Additional research and construction of entry by Benjidog
- Further information provided by Stan Mayes
