Court Line - the company and its ships

Errington Court (1)

 

Court Line used the name Errington Court for four ships:

 

· Errington Court (1) - a cargo ship  completed in 1909

· Errington Court (2) - a cargo ship completed in 1925

· Errington Court (3) - a cargo ship completed in 1945 as Empire Favour

· Errington Court (4) - a cargo ship completed in 1957

 

Errington Court (1) had a 33 year service life involving several changes of ownership and name, was seized by the Japanese in WW2 and believed torpedoed by USS Trout in 1942.

Basic Data

Type: Cargo ship

Registered owners,managers and operators:

Court Line Ltd.

Managers Haldin & Philipps Ltd. London

Builders: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co.  Ltd.

Yard: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Country: UK

Yard number: 162

Registry: N/K

Official number: 129030

Signal letters: N/K

Call sign: GPQL (Bournemouth)

Classification society: N/K

Gross tonnage: 4,461

Net tonnage: 2,782

Deadweight: N/K

Length: 380 ft

Breadth: 52.3 ft

Depth: 25.4 ft

Draught: N/K

Engines: Triple expansion steam engine

Engine builders: Blair & Co.Ltd.

Works: Stockton-on-Tees

Country: UK

Power: 427 nhp

Propulsion: Single screw

Speed: 9 knots

Cargo capacity: N/K

Crew: N/K

Service post-WW1

 

Apart from changes of ownership and name, nothing is known of her service after WW1 until she was seized by the Japanese during WW2:

 

External resour

In Ext. Ref. 7, Middlemass says she was ''"seized by Japanese off China, fate unknown"''. It is not known in what capacity she was acting when this occurred.

 

Ext. Ref. #2 records a name change to Uzan Maru in 1941 and that she was sunk by a torpedo fired by a submarine at position 33.26N/135.52E on 2 May 1942.

 

Ext. Ref. #16 records that USS Trout torpedoed Uzan Maru on the above date but gives her as 5,014 grt.

 

As there are no other ships with the name Uzan Maru listed, it is presumed that USS Trout did indeed sink her. No information is available about casualties  but further research is required to confirm her fate for certain.

Images

 

1. Image 1 by permission of Clive Malvern.

Service Pre-WW1

 

No information currently available.

 

Service in WW1

 

The following information about her service during WW1 has been provided by Clive Ketley:

 

· Served as R.N.Collier No.339 from 28/9/14 to 14/12/14 and 02/03/15 - 16/04/16

· Carried oats for Expeditionary Force.

· 07/06/17 Mined on Med but beached and repaired.

· White Sea Collier from 13/07/16 - 17/11/16 and 08/05/17 - 06/06/18

· E.F.(G.21) Timber transport

· Collier again 04/09/18 - 27/03/19

· Then to Cuba to transport sugar

Image 1