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Court Line used the name Uffington Court for just one ship
Uffington Court was in service from 1929 until 1967 so had a long working life of 38 years. During this period she served on a large number of WW2 convoys and changed owners and name on several occasions.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Service before WW2[edit]
No information is available about Uffington Court's service before WW2 but according to External resource #4 she was not laid up during the 1930s depression like many of the Court Line ships.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
Uffington Court took part in 68 convoys during WW2.
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #1.
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 before WW2
- 5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
- 6 Service post WW2
- 7 External resources
- 8 Images
- 9 Contributors
Court Line used the name Uffington Court for just one ship
Uffington Court was in service from 1929 until 1967 so had a long working life of 38 years. During this period she served on a large number of WW2 convoys and changed owners and name on several occasions.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: United British Steamship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Philipps Ltd. London
- Builders: William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd.
- Yard: Southwick, Sunderland
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 227
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 161308
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 4,976
- Net tonnage: 3,080
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 405.6 ft
- Breadth: 55.5 ft
- Depth: 25.8 ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: 3-cylinder Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd.
- Works: Sunderland
- Country: UK
- Power: 437 nhp
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: 10 knots
- Cargo capacity: N/K
- Crew: N/K
Career Highlights[edit]
- 28 Aug 1929: Launched
- Oct 1929: Completed
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same managers
- 1952: Sold to Rederi A/B Skane, Helsingborg, Sweden - Managers Hans Lundgren - and renamed Svarten
- 1957: Sold to Rederi A/B Sigun - Same Managers
- 1960: Sold to Panamanian Oriental Steamship Corp. Panama - Managers Wheelock, Marden & Co. Ltd and renamed Ocean Pride
- 1962: Sold to Cia.Nav.Peace Ltda. S.A. Panama - Managers Hai An Shipping Co. Ltd. And renamed Fu An
- 27 Nov1967: Arrived at Kaohsiung Taiwan to be broken up
Service before WW2[edit]
No information is available about Uffington Court's service before WW2 but according to External resource #4 she was not laid up during the 1930s depression like many of the Court Line ships.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
Uffington Court took part in 68 convoys during WW2.
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #1.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys |