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Court Line used the name Dorington Court for five ships:
Dorington Court (4) had a service life of 21 years during which she served in a large number of WW2 convoys. After the war she changed hands on a number of occasions and was sent for scrap after running aground and being declared a total loss in 1961.
Basic Data[edit]
Career Highlights[edit]
Service during WW2 convoys as Empire Meteor[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4. Dorington Court (4) Court took part in 77 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 Service during WW2 convoys as Empire Meteor
- 5 Service post WW2
- 6 External resources
- 7 Images
- 8 Main Contributors
Court Line used the name Dorington Court for five ships:
- Dorington Court (1) - a cargo ship completed in 1908
- 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 (4) had a service life of 21 years during which she served in a large number of WW2 convoys. After the war she changed hands on a number of occasions and was sent for scrap after running aground and being declared a total loss in 1961.
Basic Data[edit]
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: Ministry of War Transport (MOWT) - Managers Mungo Campbell & Co. Ltd.
- Builders: Joseph .L.Thompson & Sons Ltd.
- Yard: Dundee
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 602
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 168661
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 7,483
- Net tonnage: 4,517
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 426 ft
- Breadth: 59.9 ft
- Depth: 35 ft
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: George Clark (1938) Ltd.
- Works: Sunderland
- Country: UK
- Power: N/K
- Propulsion: Single screw
- Speed: 10 knots
- Cargo capacity: N/K
- Crew: N/K
Career Highlights[edit]
- 3 Sep 1940: Launched as Empire Meteor
- Dec 1940: Completed
- 1946: Acquired by the United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Phillipps Ltd.) and renamed Dorington Court
- 1947: Owners restyled Court Line Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Co. Ltd.
- 1956: Sold to INSA Soc de Nav. Genoa, Italy and renamed Giada
- 1960: Sold to Phoebus D Kyprianou, Beirut, Lebanon and renamed Sheikh
- 2 Oct 1961: Ran ashore and became a total loss and sold for scrap
Service during WW2 convoys as Empire Meteor[edit]
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4. Dorington Court (4) Court took part in 77 convoys.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
List of Convoys |