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Name: QUARRINGTON COURT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/10/1928
Completed: 11/1928
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co (1927) Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 406
Dimensions: 6900grt, 4330nrt, 420.0 x 56.5 x 33.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 75 x 51ins), 569nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 160614
History:
11/1928 United British Steamship Co Ltd (Haldin & Co Ltd, managers), London
1936 Company restyled as Court Line Ltd, London
07/12/1937 Sank
Comments: 07/12/1937: Foundered 25 nm from Shadwan Island in the Red Sea
On a voyage from Calcutta to Baltimore with a cargo of ore & gunnies


Above photo copyright of City of Vancouver Archives, Walter Frost Collection

Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair