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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

Introduction[edit]

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
Convoy No.	Route	Convoy No.	Route
KJ.3	Oct 1939: Kingston jamaica - Uk ports	OB.36	Nov 1939: Liverpool - Formed OG.7
OB.44	Nov 1939: Liverpool - Dispersed	SL/MKS.21	Feb 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
OA.124	Apr 1940: Southend - Dispersed	OA.155G	May 1940: Southend - Formed OG.31
HX.40	May 1940: Halifax - Liverpool	OB.164	Jun 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed 46.24N 19.58W
FS.231	Jul 1940: Tyne - Southend	HX.56	Jul 1940: Halifax - Liverpool
FN.260	Aug 1940: Southend - Methil	FN.262	Aug 1940: Southend - Methil
OA.206	Aug 1940: Methil - Dispersed	SL/MKS.56	Nov 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
OB.275	Jan 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 60.56N 25W	HX.111	Feb 1941: Halifax - Liverpool
OB.313	Apr 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed	HX.129	May 1941: Halifax - Liverpool
OG.66	Jun 1941: Liverpool - Gibraltar	SL/MKS.81	Jul 1941: Freetown - Liverpool
ON.8	Aug 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 56.09N 44.32W	SC.49	Oct 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool
SC.50	Oct 1941: Sydney CB - Liverpool	BB.102	Nov 1941: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven
OS/KMS.14	Dec 1941: Liverpool - Freetown	C.13	Apr 1942: Colombo - Dispersed 01.31n 70.03e
KS.529	Aug 1942: Hampton Roads - Key West	WAT.15	Aug 1942: Key West - Trinidad
TRIN.4	Aug 1942: Trinidad - Dispersed	SL/MKS.127	Mar 1943: Freetown - Liverpool
CN.12	Mar 1943: Capetown - Dispersed	DC.12	Mar 1943: Durban - Capetown
WN.419	Apr 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil	FN.1013	May 1943: Southend - Methil
EN.248	Jun 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe	FN.1056	Jun 1943: Southend - Methil
FS.1099	Apr 1943: Methil - Southend	FS.1144	Jun 1943: Methil - Southend
OS/KMS.51	Jul 1943: Ex OS51/ KMS20 - Freetown	OS/KMS.51KM	Jul 1943: Liverpool - Convoy Split
SL/MKS.137	Sep 1943: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.26	SL/MKS.137MK	Oct 1943: Rendezvous of SL137 with MKS26 - Liverpool
FS.1250	Oct 1943: Methil - Southend	WN.494	Oct 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil
EN.310	Nov 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe	ONS.24	Nov 1943: Liverpool - Halifax
FN.1182	Nov 1943: Southend - Methil	FN.1184	Nov 1943: Southend - Methil
XB.88	Dec 1943: Halifax - Boston	KG.684	Jan 1944: Key West - Guantanamo
NK.587	Jan 1944: NYC - Key West	GZ.58	Feb 1944: Guantanamo - Cristobal
DC.53	Jun 1944: Durban - Capetown	KD.4	Jun 1944: Kilindini - Durban
SL/MKS.170MK	Sep 1944: Rendezvous of SL170 with MKS61 - Liverpool	SL/MKS.170	Sep 1944: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.61
KMS.69	Nov 1944: Gibraltar - Dispersed 1800Z Off Malta	KMS.69G	Nov 1944: Ex OS95/ KMS69 - Gibraltar
OS/KMS.95KM	Nov 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split	FN.1642	Feb 1945: Southend - Methil
MKS.83G	Feb 1945: Gibraltar - Liverpool	ON.291	Mar 1945: Southend - NYC
FS.1753	Mar 1945: Methil - Southend	BX.158	Apr 1945: Boston - Halifax
SC.174	Apr 1945: Halifax - Liverpool	ATM.167	May 1945: Antwerp - Southend
BTC.159	May 1945: Milford Haven - Southend	TAM.173	May 1945: Southend - Antwerp

Service post WW2[edit]

No information is available apart from the changes in ownership and name recorded in the Career Highlights section.

External resources[edit]

1. Convoyweb (Arnold Hague Convoy Database): [1]
2. Miramar Ship Index: [2]
3. Information extracted from Lloyds Registers
4. Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021

Images[edit]

Image 1: Photo in the SN Galleries posted by Keith Adams

Contributors[edit]

1. Initial information provided by Clive Ketley and John Powell
2. Additional research and construction of entry by Benjidog