Court Line - the company and its ships

Dorington Court (1)

 

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 (V) - 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

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: 3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine

Engine builders: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co.Ltd.

Works: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Country: UK

Power: 356 nhp

Propulsion: Single Screw

Speed: NK

Cargo capacity: N/K

Crew: N/K

Images

 

1. Image #1 by courtesy of Bjeorn Pedersen

Service History

 

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.

 

Ext. Ref #12 has a map showing the location of the wreck here: Chart showing location of wreck

Image 1

Image 1 shows Dorington Court (1) after renaming as Romsdalsfjord so must have been taken between 1914 and 1920.