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Court Line used the name Framlington Court for three ships:
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
No information currently available.
Service in WW1[edit]
This is a summary of the work done by Geddington Court in WW1:
Service between WW1 and WW2[edit]
No information apart from changes in name and ownership
Participation in WW2 Convoys as Icarion[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #3.
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 Pre-War History
- 5 Service in WW1
- 6 Service between WW1 and WW2
- 7 Participation in WW2 Convoys as Icarion
- 8 Sinking
- 9 External resources
- 10 Images
- 11 Contributors
Court Line used the name Framlington Court for three ships:
- Geddington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1912 - the topic of this article
- Geddington Court (2) - a cargo ship completed in 1928
- Geddington Court (3) - a cargo ship completed in 1952
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: Court Line Ltd. - Managers Haldinstien and Co
- Builders: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
- Yard: Howden, Newcastle
- Country: UK
- Yard number:188
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 132665
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 3,989
- Net tonnage: 2,495
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 375.1 ft
- Breadth: 51.3 ft
- Depth: 24.3 Ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Blair & Co.Ltd.
- Works: Stockton
- Country: UK
- Power: 385 nhp
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: N/K
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights[edit]
- 08/11/1911: Launched by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. l
- Jan 1912: Completed
- 1915: Managers restyled Haldin & Co. Ltd
- 12/04/16: Requisitioned for war service
- 1927: Sold to G.D. Gratsos, Ithica, Greece and renamed Pontos
- 1935: Sold to George Gratsos
- 1936: Sold to Aegean Steamship Co.Ltd., Argostoli, Greece and renamed Icarion
- 27/1/42: Torpedoed and sunk
No information currently available.
Service in WW1[edit]
This is a summary of the work done by Geddington Court in WW1:
- 12/4/16 - 14/7/16: E.F.Transport for carriage of hay and oats then collier service, no number, up to 27/9/16
- 16/10/17 - 07/12/17: E.F.Service again for oats, and timber from U.S.Gulf to U.K.
- 23/2/18 - 08/07/18: R.N.Collier No 1861 then wheat from U.S.A.
- 09/07/18 - Mid 1919: Wheat from Karachi, Sugar from Cuba, wheat from Canada, and phosphates from Sfax to U.K. up to Mid.1919.
Service between WW1 and WW2[edit]
No information apart from changes in name and ownership
Participation in WW2 Convoys as Icarion[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #3.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys |