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Court Line used the name Dorington Court for five ships:
Dorington Court (1) was sold to Norwegian owners before WW1, was in service for 12 years and was wrecked in 1920.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Service History[edit]
No information currently available apart from changes of owners and names and final fate when she hit rocks and sunk on route from Narvik to Baltimore with a cargo of iron ore.
External resource #3 has a map showing the location of the wreck here: Chart showing location of wreck
External resources[edit]
Awaiting an image of this vessel
Contributors[edit]
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Data
- 3 Career Highlights
- 4 Service History
- 5 External resources
- 6 Images
- 7 Contributors
Court Line used the name Dorington Court for five ships:
- Dorington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1908 - the topic of this article
- 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 (1) was sold to Norwegian owners before WW1, was in service for 12 years and was wrecked in 1920.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: Court Line Ltd. - Managers Haldinstien and Co.
- Builders: R.Stephenson & Co.Ltd.
- Yard: Hebburn Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 113
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 125671
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 4,426
- Net tonnage: 2,782
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 355.5 ft
- Breadth: 50 ft
- Depth: 27.6 Ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co.Ltd.
- Works: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Country: UK
- Power: 356 nhp
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: N/K
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
- Employment: General purpose cargo vessel
Career Highlights[edit]
- March 1908: Completed
- 1913: Sold to Akties Dmsk. Vally - Management P.Gjerding, Bergen, Norway and renamed VALLY.
- 1914: Sold to Den Norske Amerikalinie, Christiana, Norway renamed ROMSDALFJORD.
- 10 Dec 1920: Wrecked at the Blind Sisters Rock, Sambro, near Halifax, Nova Scotia
Service History[edit]
No information currently available apart from changes of owners and names and final fate when she hit rocks and sunk on route from Narvik to Baltimore with a cargo of iron ore.
External resource #3 has a map showing the location of the wreck here: Chart showing location of wreck
External resources[edit]
- Miramar Ship Index: [1]
- Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021
- NSWrecks website: http://nswrecks.net/
Awaiting an image of this vessel
Contributors[edit]
- Initial information provided by Clive Ketley and John Powell
- Additional research and construction of entry by Benjidog
