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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

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 |