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Court Line used the name Jevington Court for 2 ships:
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Pre-War History[edit]
No information currently available.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #3 which indicates that Jevington Court 2 participated in 4 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
Sinking[edit]
Jevington Court (1) struck a mine and sank 8.25 miles from Cromer Knoll lightship. According to External resource #6 this was while she was in convoy FS103.
On the 24th, steamer JEVINGTON COURT (4544grt) from convoy FS.103, 8¼ miles 161° from Cromer Knoll Light Vessel in 53‑08N, 01‑22E. The entire crew was saved by minesweeper DUNOON.
There is a short reference to the sinking of Jevington Court (2) in External resource #5:
I joined the s/s Jevington Court in Leith, and sailed to South Shields in to a dry dock, at this time a lot of collier ships were getting sunk, we pulled out of dry dock with no Degousan gear fitted this was to stop magnetic mines, Load a cargo of coal for Parliament House on the 27th of February 1940 we struck a mine near Outer Douson Light Ship started to sink and in the lifeboat I managed to save the galley boy and a deck boy, the lifeboat was swamped with water and it was freezing cold, which was a black ice , we were the last lifeboat to be picked up, we were rescued by H.M.S.Dunoon and taken into Grimsby and into Hospital, I still suffer with Permicious Anaemia and White Finger.
External resources[edit]
Images[edit]
Image 1: Photo from the SN Galleries provided by scorcher
Contributors[edit]
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Data
- 3 Career Highlights
- 4 Pre-War History
- 5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
- 6 Sinking
- 7 External resources
- 8 Images
- 9 Contributors
Court Line used the name Jevington Court for 2 ships:
- Jevington Court (1) - a cargo ship launched in 1925 and the subject of this entry
- Jevington Court (2) - a cargo ship launched in 1956
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: The United British Steamship Co. Ltd. - Management Haldin and Philipps London
- Builders: Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd.
- Yard: Belfast
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 484
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 148639
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: GLND
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 4,544
- Net tonnage: 2,746
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 397 ft
- Breadth: 53.2 ft
- Depth: 24.5 Ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine 26", 42", 70" diameter x 48" stoke
- Engine builders: Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd.
- Works: Belfast
- Country: UK
- Power: N/k
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed:??
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights[edit]
- 9 Jun 1925: Launched
- July 1925: Completed
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. (same managers)
- 24 Feb 1940: Struck a mine and sunk
Pre-War History[edit]
No information currently available.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #3 which indicates that Jevington Court 2 participated in 4 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 |
| SL/MKS.13 | Dec 1939: Freetown - Liverpool | FS.90 | Feb 1940: Tyne - Southend) |
| FS.95 | Feb 1940: Tyne - Southend | FS.103 | Feb 1940: Tyne - Southend |
Sinking[edit]
Jevington Court (1) struck a mine and sank 8.25 miles from Cromer Knoll lightship. According to External resource #6 this was while she was in convoy FS103.
On the 24th, steamer JEVINGTON COURT (4544grt) from convoy FS.103, 8¼ miles 161° from Cromer Knoll Light Vessel in 53‑08N, 01‑22E. The entire crew was saved by minesweeper DUNOON.
There is a short reference to the sinking of Jevington Court (2) in External resource #5:
I joined the s/s Jevington Court in Leith, and sailed to South Shields in to a dry dock, at this time a lot of collier ships were getting sunk, we pulled out of dry dock with no Degousan gear fitted this was to stop magnetic mines, Load a cargo of coal for Parliament House on the 27th of February 1940 we struck a mine near Outer Douson Light Ship started to sink and in the lifeboat I managed to save the galley boy and a deck boy, the lifeboat was swamped with water and it was freezing cold, which was a black ice , we were the last lifeboat to be picked up, we were rescued by H.M.S.Dunoon and taken into Grimsby and into Hospital, I still suffer with Permicious Anaemia and White Finger.
External resources[edit]
- Information extracted from Lloyds Registers by John Powell
- Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021
- Miramar Ships Index: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
- Arnold Hague Convoy Database: http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/
- WW2 People's War: WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at [1] The contributor identified themselves by the name dotiedot.
Images[edit]
Image 1: Photo from the SN Galleries provided by scorcher
Contributors[edit]
- Basic research and construction of entry by Benjidog
- History and basic details by John Powell
- Callsign and engine cylinder details from SN member Ruud
