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Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Basic Data
• 3 Career Highlights
• 4 Service Pre-WW1
• 5 War Service
• 6 Service Post-war
• 7 External resources
• 8 Images
• 9 Contributors

Introduction[edit]

Court Line used the name Cressington Court for four ships:

1. Cressington Court (1) - a cargo ship launched in 1908
2. Cressington Court (2) - a cargo ship launched in 1929
3. Cressington Court (3) - a cargo ship launched as Empire Earl in 1942
4. Cressington Court (4) - a bulk carrier launched as Hector Halcyon in 1961

The first Cressington Court was in service from 1908 until she was scrapped in 1935 - a service life of 27 years. She got through WW1 unscathed.

Basic Data[edit]

• Type: Cargo ship
• Registered owners,managers and operators: Court Line Ltd. - Management Haldinstien and Co
• Builders: Richardson, Duck and Co.
• Yard: Stockton-on-Tees
• Country: UK
• Yard number: 589
• Registry: N/K
• Official number: 125709
• Signal letters: N/K
• Call sign: N/K
• Classification society: N/K
• Gross tonnage: 4,396
• Net tonnage: 2,716
• Deadweight: N/K
• Length: 354.4 ft
• Breadth: 50 ft
• Depth: 27.6 Ft
• Draught: N/K
• Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
• Engine builders: Clair and Co Ltd.
• Works: Stockton-on-Tees
• Country: UK
• Power: 358 nhp
• Propulsion: Single screw
• Speed: 9 knots
• Boilers: N/K
• Cargo capacity:N/K
• Crew: N/K

• Employment: General purpose cargo vessel

Career Highlights[edit]

• 13/06/1908: Launched
• Jul 1908: Completed
• 1915: Managers restyle Haldin & Co. Ltd.
• 20/10/1915: Requisitioned for war service
• 13/8/18 Sold to A.M.Sutherland, and renamed 1919 as ROXBURGH
• 1921 Was to have been sold to Western Counties Shipping Co.Ltd. (Edwards Sons & Co.) as ROXMEAD but sale cancelled due to

liquidation of Edwards,Sons & Co.

• 1921 Sold Tyneside Line(l920)Ltd - Management Ridley Son & Tully,Newcastle
• 1925 Sold to Carras Bros. Chios, Greece renamed FOTINI
• 1926 Renamed FOTINI CARRAS
• 1/1/1934 Stranded in Ocharkov Channel, Black Sea, refloated and taken to U.K.
• Feb 1935 Sold to Italian Breakers but sale cancelled.
• Sold to Westbourne Shipping Co.Ltd. as HILLCOTE
• Sep 1935 Broken up in Italy.

Service Pre-WW1[edit]

No information is currently known about her service before WW1.

War Service[edit]

Cressington Court (1) was used to transport various cargoes during the WW1:

• RN Collier service from 20/10/15 - 19/02/16 and 5/5/16 to 11/6/16
• East African Campaign as Store Ship No.B.108 from 18/3/17 - 5/1/18 mainly Durban to Dar-es-Salaam
• South African Maize cargoes up to 25/3/18. then ore cargoes
• Collier again 10/5/18 to 22/6/18
• Wheat from R.Plate up to Collier service 18/11/18 - 27/12/18
• Wheat from Australia up to Mid.1919

Service Post-war[edit]

No details are currently known about her service after WW1 apart from changes of ownership and a stranding in the Ocharkov Chanel in the Black Sea in 1934.

External resources[edit]

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

Images[edit]

Awaiting an image of this vessel

Contributors[edit]

1. Initial information provided by Stan Mayes
2. Additional information provided by Clive Ketley
3. Additional research and construction of entry by Benjidog