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Court Line used the name Cedrington Court for just one ship.
She had a service life of 22 years which was brought to a close by her striking a mine in 1940 and sinking.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
No information currently available apart from that Cedrington Court was laid up for some years at Milford Haven during the Depression of the 1930s.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Cedrington Court participated in 4 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names

Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Data
- 3 Career Highlights
- 4 Pre-War History
- 5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
- 6 Sinking
- 7 External resources
- 8 Images
- 9 Contributors
Court Line used the name Cedrington Court for just one ship.
She had a service life of 22 years which was brought to a close by her striking a mine in 1940 and sinking.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: The Shipping Controller London (as War Viper)
- Builders: Harland and Wolff Ltd.
- Yard: Belfast
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 531
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 142323
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 5,160
- Net tonnage: 3,122
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 400.4 ft
- Breadth: 52.3 ft
- Depth: 27.4 Ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Harland and Wolff Ltd.
- Works: Belfast
- Country: UK
- Power: N/k
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: 11
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights[edit]
- 14 Feb 1918: Launched as War Viper
- 14 Mar 1918: Completed
- 1919: Sold to Donaldson Line - Managers Donaldson Bros. and renamed Cabotia
- 1925: Acquired by The United British Steamship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin and Philips Ltd. and renamed Cedrington Court
- 1936: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - same managers
- 7 Jan 1940: Struck a mine and sunk
No information currently available apart from that Cedrington Court was laid up for some years at Milford Haven during the Depression of the 1930s.
Participation in WW2 Convoys[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Cedrington Court participated in 4 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys |