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Court Line used the name Dorington Court for five ships:
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]
Career Highlights[edit]
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]
Images[edit]
Main Contributors[edit]
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Data
- 3 Career Highlights
- 4 Service History
- 5 External resources
- 6 Images
- 7 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 (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]
- Information extracted from Lloyds Registers
- Norman Middlemiss: Travel of the Tramps - Twenty Tramp Fleets ISBN: 1871128021
- Miramar Ship Index: [1]
Images[edit]
- From The Allen Collection: [2]
Main Contributors[edit]
- Basic information from John Powell and Clive Ketley
- Additional research and construction of page by Benjidog
