Hannington Court

Last updated April 06, 2019

Three ships of the Court Line have borne the name Hannington Court:

Court Line Aviation was a prominent British holiday charter airline during the early 1970s based at Luton Airport in Bedfordshire. It also provided bus services in Luton and surrounding areas.

SS Hannington Court was a cargo ship launched in 1912. She was renamed Elios in 1936, Empire Brigade in 1940, and was sunk later that year.
SS Hannington Court (1939) was a cargo ship launched in 1939. She caught fire in 1941 and was scuttled.
MV Hannington Court (1954) was a cargo ship launched in 1954. She was renamed Gandhi Jayanti in 1963, Gandhi in 1974 and was scrapped in 1976.

SS Empire Brigade was a 5,184 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1912 as SS Hannington Court. She served through the First World War and was sold in 1936 to Achille Lauro, who renamed her Elios. In 1940 when Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom she was interned by the UK as a war prize and taken over by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which renamed her Empire Brigade. Four months later she was torpedoed and sunk by U-99.

MV Hannington Court was a cargo ship of the Court Line. Launched in 1954 as part of the company's rebuilding programme after the Second World War, she sailed for a number of years before being sold to an Indian company in 1963 and renamed Gandhi Jayanti. She was again sold in 1967, was renamed Gandhi in 1974, and was scrapped in 1976.

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