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Court Line used the name Geddington Court for three ships:
Geddington Court (2) had a long service life of 43 years during which she took part in a large number of WW2 convoys, was updated from steam to oil and spent her last years as a fish factory ship.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Service Pre-WW2[edit]
Nothing is known about her service life prior to WW2 although she is not listed in External resource #1 as having been laid up during the 1930s depression as happened to the majority of Court Line ships.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Geddington Court (2) participated in 80 convoys.
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 Service Pre-WW2
- 5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
- 6 Service Post WW2
- 7 External resources
- 8 Images
- 9 Contributors
Court Line used the name Geddington Court for three ships:
- Geddington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1912
- Geddington Court (2) - a cargo ship completed in 1928
- Geddington Court (3) - a cargo ship completed in 1952
Geddington Court (2) had a long service life of 43 years during which she took part in a large number of WW2 convoys, was updated from steam to oil and spent her last years as a fish factory ship.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: The United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - managers Haldin & Phillipps Ltd.
- Builders: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. (1927) Ltd.
- Yard: Howden
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 405
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 160564
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 6,903
- Net tonnage: 4,333
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 420.1 ft
- Breadth: 56.5 ft
- Depth: 33.8 Ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering & Co. Ltd.
- Works: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Country: UK
- Power: N/k
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: 10.5 knots
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
Career Highlights[edit]
- 3 Aug 1928: Launched
- Sep 1928: Completed
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same managers
- 1951: Sold to Kyoritsu Kisen Nichino K.K. Tokyo Japan and renamed Kyoho Maru
- 1951: Sold to Nichiro Gyogyo K.K. Tokyo, Japan
- 1953: Sold to Nichiro Kisen K.K. Japan
- 1957: Re-engined with 7 cylinder oil engine by Mitsubishi Nippon Heave Industries
- 1961: Converted into a fish factory ship
- Dec 1971: Broken up by Great China Steel & Iron Co. Ltd. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Service Pre-WW2[edit]
Nothing is known about her service life prior to WW2 although she is not listed in External resource #1 as having been laid up during the 1930s depression as happened to the majority of Court Line ships.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Geddington Court (2) participated in 80 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys |