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Court Line used the name Cressington Court for four ships:
Cressington Court (3) was in service for 26 years during which time she served in WW2 convoys in her original name of Empire Earl and after several changes of owners, name and management was broken up in 1970.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Participation in WW2 Convoys as Empire Earl[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #1. Empire Earl took part in 43 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 Participation in WW2 Convoys as Empire Earl
- 5 Service History post WW2
- 6 External resources
- 7 Images
- 8 Main Contributors
Court Line used the name Cressington Court for four ships:
- Cressington Court (1) - a cargo ship launched in 1908
- Cressington Court (2) - a cargo ship launched in 1929
- Cressington Court (3) - a cargo ship launched as Empire Earl in 1942
- Cressington Court (4) - a bulk carrier launched as Hector Halcyon in 1961
Cressington Court (3) was in service for 26 years during which time she served in WW2 convoys in her original name of Empire Earl and after several changes of owners, name and management was broken up in 1970.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: Ministry of War Transport (MOWT) - Managers Dodd Thompson & Co. Ltd.
- Builders: William Doxford & Sons Ltd.
- Yard: Pallion, Sunderland
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 713
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 180132
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 7,359
- Net tonnage: 5,207
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 431 ft
- Breadth: 56.5 ft
- Depth: 35.5 ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: 3 Cylinder 2S.C.S.A oil engine
- Engine builders: William Doxford & Sons Ltd.
- Works: Sunderland
- Country: UK
- Power: N/K
- Propulsion: N/K
- Speed: N/K
- Cargo capacity: N/K
- Crew: N/K
Career Highlights[edit]
- 8 Dec 1943: Launched as Empire Earl
- May 1944: Completed
- 1945: Acquired by the United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin and Phillipps and renamed Cressington Court
- 1948: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Co. Ltd London
- 1959: Sold to West Wales Steamship Co. Ltd. Newport Mon. - Managers Gibbs & Co. and renamed East Wales
- 1966: Sold to Dalkeith Shipping Co. Ltd. Newport Mon. - Managers Newport International Steamship Co. Ltd. Hong Kong, and renamed Universal Skipper
- 25 Aug 1970: Delivered to be broken up by Chinese mainland shipbreakers at Whampoa
Participation in WW2 Convoys as Empire Earl[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #1. Empire Earl took part in 43 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys |