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Name: DORINGTON COURT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/10/1907
Completed: 03/1908
Builder: R Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 113
Dimensions: 4580grt, 3242nrt, 355.5 x 50.0 x 27.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 43 & 70 x 45ins), 356nhp
Engines by: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 125671
History:
03/1908 Haldinstein & Co Ltd, London
1912 Akties Dmsk Vally (P Gjerding, Bergen, manager); renamed VALLY
1915 Den Norske Amerikalinie, Christiana, Norway; renamed ROMSDALSFJORD
10/12/1920 Sank
Comments: 10/12/1920: Wrecked on Blind Sisters Rocks, Sambro Is, Nov Scotia
On a voyage from Narvik to Baltimore with a cargo of iron ore


Above photo as ROMSDALSFJORD is copyright of Bjeorn Pedersen