[Ships Nostalgia]

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Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Basic Data
• 3 Career Highlights
• 4 Service History
• 5 External resources
• 6 Images
• 7 Main Contributors

Introduction[edit]

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 (5) had a 19 year service life which was terminated by a serious fire which led to her being declared not worth repairing. She was scrapped in 1976.

Basic Data[edit]

• Type: Cargo ship
• Registered owners,managers and operators: Court Line Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Co. Ltd.
• Builders: Short Bros. Ltd,
• Yard: Sunderland
• Country: UK
• Yard number: 528
• Registry: N/K
• Official number: 187671
• Signal letters: N/K
• Call sign: N/K
• Classification society: N/K
• Gross tonnage: 6,223
• Net tonnage: 3,405
• Deadweight: N/K
• Length: 444.87 ft
• Breadth: 60.25 ft
• Depth: 38.41 ft
• Draught: N/K
• Engines: 4 cylinder 2.S.C.S.A. "B&W" Oil engine
• Engine builders: J.G.Kincaid & Co Ltd.
• Works: Greenock
• Country: UK
• Power: N/K
• Propulsion: Single screw
• Speed: 10 knots
• Cargo capacity: N/K
• Crew: N/K

Career Highlights[edit]

• 12 Jul 1957: Launched
• Nov 1957: Completed
• 5 Nov 1957: Trials completed
• 1963: Sold to Monte Lindo Cia. Nav. S.A. Monrovia, Liberia - Managers Seafaring Co. Ltd. and renamed Eva
• 14 Jul 1976: Suffered serious fire damage to engine room and mid-ships structure at Gdansk. Considered not worth repairing.
• 28 Aug 1976: Delivered to be broken up by Eisen und Metall A.G. at Hamburg Germany

Service History[edit]

No information is currently available apart from changes in name and ownership and final disposal as shown in Career Highlights.

External resources[edit]

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

Images[edit]

1. From The Allen Collection: [2]

Main Contributors[edit]

1. Basic information from John Powell and Clive Ketley
2. Additional research and construction of page by Benjidog