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This site celebrates Court Line ships and is dedicated to those who sailed in them - particularly during the dark days of World War 2.
I hope that reading the history of these ships will encourage you to share my deep respect for the sacrifices made the Merchant Navy during times of war. It has never been given the official recognition it deserves but, without the supplies brought by convoys and independent voyages, Britain would not have survived. During WW2, these men ran the gauntlet of lurking U-boat wolf-packs. Many ships and seamen's lives were lost. Everyone involved, including the families of the seamen, suffered hardship of a kind that those of us born after the war can barely imagine.
To date nobody has produced a book about Court Line, although Norman Middlemiss did devote a chapter to the company in one of his books - External Reference #4. This site attempts to redress the lack of information about Court Line and is the result of several years research and input from the many people who are acknowleded on the Contributors page. I am particularly grateful to Stan Mayes who inspired me to create this site and for the information and photographs he provided about his trips on Dallington Court.
The site has been online since 29 March 2008 and was relaunched in January 2011 after a refit to standardise the code and provide support for the latest generation of web browsers.
Website Owner: Brian Watson - Click here to email me
Site Last Updated: 17 September 2011
Copyright: Most of the photos on this site are old and believed to be out of copyright but please see the
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