Dorington Court (5)

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Introduction

Court Line used the name Dorington Court for five ships:

• Dorington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1908
• Dorington Court (2) - a cargo ship completed in 1915
• Dorington Court (3) - a cargo ship completed in 1939
• Dorington Court (4) - a cargo ship completed in 1940 and originally named Empire Meteor
• Dorington Court (5) - a cargo ship completed in 1957

Dorington Court (5) had a 19 year service life which was terminated by a serious fire which led to her being declared not worth repairing. She was scrapped in 1976.

Basic Data

• Type: Cargo ship
• Registered owners,managers and operators: Court Line Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Co. Ltd.
• Builders: Short Bros. Ltd,
• Yard: Sunderland
• Country: UK
• Yard number: 528
• Registry: N/K
• Official number: 187671
• Signal letters: N/K
• Call sign: N/K
• Classification society: N/K
• Gross tonnage: 6,223
• Net tonnage: 3,405
• Deadweight: N/K
• Length: 444.87 ft
• Breadth: 60.25 ft
• Depth: 38.41 ft
• Draught: N/K
• Engines: 4 cylinder 2.S.C.S.A. “B&W” Oil engine
• Engine builders: J.G.Kincaid & Co Ltd.
• Works: Greenock
• Country: UK
• Power: N/K
• Propulsion: Single screw
• Speed: 10 knots
• Cargo capacity: N/K
• Crew: N/K

Career Highlights

• 12 Jul 1957: Launched
• Nov 1957: Completed
• 5 Nov 1957: Trials completed
• 1963: Sold to Monte Lindo Cia. Nav. S.A. Monrovia, Liberia - Managers Seafaring Co. Ltd. and renamed Eva
• 14 Jul 1976: Suffered serious fire damage to engine room and mid-ships structure at Gdansk. Considered not worth repairing.
• 28 Aug 1976: Delivered to be broken up by Eisen und Metall A.G. at Hamburg Germany

Service History

No information is currently available apart from changes in name and ownership and final disposal as shown in Career Highlights.

External resources

1. Information extracted from Lloyds Registers
2. Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021
3. Miramar Ship Index: [1]

Images

1. From The Allen Collection: [2]

Main Contributors

1. Basic information from John Powell and Clive Ketley
2. Additional research and construction of page by Benjidog