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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
Geddington Court (2) is reported as having been damaged by an air attack on 3 Apr 1941 in position 56.25N, 02.13 W. Further details are not currently known but there seems to have been no gap in her participation in convoys around this time so it is presumed that the damage was limited and capable of quick repair.
Service Post WW2[edit]
No information is available other than as shown in the Highlights section.
External resources[edit]
Image 1: SN Gallery photo supplied by Stuart Smith
Contributors[edit]
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 | |||
| Convoy No. | Route | Convoy No. | Route |
| HX.6 | Oct 1939: Halifax - Liverpool | OA.53 | Dec 1939: Southend - Dispersed |
| OB.64 | Jan 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | HX.18 | Jan 1940: Halifax - Liverpool |
| OA.99 | Feb 1940: Southend - Dispersed | OB.119 | Mar 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed |
| OA.155G | May 1940: Southend - Formed OG.31 | HX.40 | May 1940: Halifax - Liverpool |
| OB.162 | Jun 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | HX.58 | Jul 1940: Halifax - Liverpool |
| OB.202 | Aug 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | HX.76 | Sep 1940: Halifax - Liverpool |
| OB.241 | Nov 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed | SC.18 | Jan 1941: Halifax - Liverpool |
| FS.409 | Feb 1941: Methil - Southend | WN.81 | Feb 1941: Clyde - Methil |
| FN.446 | Mar 1941: Southend - Methil | EN.94/1 | Apr 1941: Methil - Oban |
| EC.15 | May 1941: Southend - Clyde | OB.321 | May 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed |
| SC.34 | Jun 1941: Sydney CB - Clyde | WN.146 | Jun 1941: Oban - Methil |
| EC.46 | Jul 1941: Southend - Clyde | FS.532 | Jul 1941: Methil - Southend |
| ON.7 | Aug 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 56.31N 42.39W | SL/MKS.104 | Mar 1942: Freetown - Liverpool |
| BB.162 | Apr 1942: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven | ON.94 | May 1942: Liverpool - Halifax |
| GN.38 | Jan 1943: Guantanamo - NYC | TAG.38 | Jan 1943: Trinidad - Guantanamo |
| SC.123 | Mar 1943: NYC - Liverpool | FS.1090 | Apr 1943: Methil - Southend |
| WN.415 | Apr 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil | EN.234 | May 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| ONS.9 | May 1943: Liverpool - Halifax | FH.61 | Jun 1943: St John NB - Halifax |
| HF.59 | Jun 1943: Halifax - St. John NB | SC.135 | Jun 1943: Halifax - Liverpool |
| KMS.53 | Jun 1944: Gibraltar - Port Said | KMS.53G | Jun 1944: Ex OS79/ KMS53 - Gibraltar |
| EN.261 | Jul 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe | FN.1081 | Jul 1943: Southend - Methil |
| FS.1166 | Jul 1943: Methil - Southend | WN.453 | Jul 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| FS.1523 | Jul 1944: Methil - Southend | NK.562 | Aug 1943: NYC - Key West. |
| ONS.15 | Aug 1943: Liverpool - Halifax | XB.70 | Aug 1943: Halifax - Cape Cod Canal |
| CO.145 | Nov 1943: Newcastle NSW - Melbourne | DKA.12 | Feb 1944: Kilindini - Aden |
| MKS.44 | Mar 1944: Port Said - Gibraltar | SL/MKS.153MK | Apr 1944: Rendezvous of SL153 with MKS44 - Liverpool |
| MKS.44G | Apr 1944: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.153 | MKS.53 | Jun 1944: Port Said - Gibraltar |
| OS/KMS.79KM | Jun 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split | MKS.54G | Jul 1944: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.163 |
| SL/MKS.163MK | Jul 1944: Rendezvous of SL163 with MKS54 - Liverpool | WN.610 | Jul 1944: Loch Ewe - Methil |
| ON.248S | Aug 1944: Liverpool - NYC | EN.419 | Aug 1944: Methil - Loch Ewe |
| FN.1439 | Aug 1944: Southend - Methil | HX.306 | Aug 1944: NYC - Liverpool |
| QS.88 | Aug 1944: Red islet - Sydney cb | EBC.106 | Sep 1944: Barry - Seine Bay |
| ONS.34 | Oct 1944: Liverpool - Halifax | QS.104 | Nov 1944: Quebec city - Sydney cb |
| FS.1672 | Dec 1944: Methil - Southend | SC.162 | Dec 1944: Halifax - Liverpool |
| WN.662 | Dec 1944: Loch Ewe - Methil | FN.1605 | Jan 1945: Southend - Methil |
| FN.1611 | Jan 1945: Southend - Methil | ONS.42 | Feb 1945: Liverpool - Halifax |
| EN.474 | Feb 1945: Methil - Belfast Lough | NG.496 | Mar 1945: NYC - Guantanamo |
| XB.149 | Mar 1945: Halifax - Cape Cod Canal | NG.496 | Mar 1945: Nyc - Guantanamo |
| GN.199 | Apr 1945: Guantanamo - NYC | BX.159 | Apr 1945: Boston - Halifax |
| BTC.164 | May 1945: Milford Haven - Southend | SC.175 | May 1945: Halifax - Liverpool |
Geddington Court (2) is reported as having been damaged by an air attack on 3 Apr 1941 in position 56.25N, 02.13 W. Further details are not currently known but there seems to have been no gap in her participation in convoys around this time so it is presumed that the damage was limited and capable of quick repair.
Service Post WW2[edit]
No information is available other than as shown in the Highlights section.
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/
Image 1: SN Gallery photo supplied by Stuart Smith
Contributors[edit]
- Basic research and construction of entry by Benjidog
- History and basic details by John Powell and Clive Ketley
