Court Line - the company and its ships

Nollington Court

 

Court Line used the name Nollington Court for just one ship.

 

She had a relatively uneventful 13 year service life until she was lost in 1937 after grounding in the West Indies.

Basic Data

Type: Cargo ship

Registered owners,managers and operators:

Charles Radcliffe Ltd.

Managers C Radcliffe & Co

Builders: Richardson Duck & Co Ltd.

Yard: Stockton-on-Tees

Country: UK

Yard number: 686

Registry: N/K

Official number: 148271

Signal letters: N/K

Call sign: GKPR

Classification society: N/K

Gross tonnage: 6,097

Net tonnage: 3,773

Deadweight: N/K

Length: 400 ft

Breadth: 53 ft

Depth: 32.7 ft

Draught: N/K

Engines: 3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine

Engine builders: Blair & Co.Ltd.

Works: Stockton-on-Tees

Country: UK

Power: 425 nhp

Propulsion: Single Screw

Speed: N/K

Cargo capacity: N/K

Crew: N/K

Images

 

1. Image #1 from the Webmasters photo collection.

Service History

 

Little information currently available apart from changes of owners and names and final fate when she hit rocks and sank. She was laid up for some years at Sunderland during the depression of the 1930s

 

She became a total loss after grounding in 1937. According to Ext. Ref. #1, she hit an object on 23 November 1937 and sank 8 nautical miles North of Tortuga Island on 26 November.

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