Nollington Court

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Introduction

Court Line used the name Nollington Court for just one ship.

She had a relatively uneventful 13 year service life until she was lost in 1937 after grounding in the West Indies.

Basic Data

• Type: Cargo ship
• Registered owners,managers and operators: Charles Radcliffe Ltd. - Managers C Radcliffe & Co
• Builders: Richardson Duck & Co Ltd.
• Yard: Stockton-on-Tees
• Country: UK
• Yard number: 686
• Registry: N/K
• Official number: 148271
• Signal letters: N/K
• Call sign: N/K
• Classification society: N/K
• Gross tonnage: 6,097
• Net tonnage: 3,773
• Deadweight: N/K
• Length: 400 ft
• Breadth: 53 ft
• Depth: 32.7 ft
• Draught: N/K
• Engines: 3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine
• Engine builders: Blair & Co.Ltd.
• Works: Stockton-on-Tees
• Country: UK
• Power: 425 nhp
• Propulsion: Single Screw
• Speed: N/K
• Cargo capacity: N/K
• Crew: N/K

Career Highlights

• 3 Apr 1924: Launched as Conistone
• May 1924: Completed
• 1927: Acquired by The United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin and Phillipps - and renamed Nollington Court
• 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same Managers
• 23 Nov1937: Struck submerged rock off Turks Island West Indies and became a total loss

Service History

Little information currently available apart from changes of owners and names and final fate when she hit rocks and sank. She was laid up for some years at Sunderland during the depression of the 1930s

She became a total loss after grounding in 1937. According to External resource #2, the location of grounding was 8 miles north of Tortuga.

External resources

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

Images

1. From The Allen Collection: [2]

Contributors

1. Basic research and construction of entry by Benjidog
2. History and basic details by John Powell