SS Canadian Constructor

SS Canadian Constructor was a 7,178 GRT[1] refrigerated ship built in 1922 by Halifax Shipyards Ltd in Nova Scotia.

History
Canada
Name: SS Canadian Constructor
Owner: Canadian Constructor, Ltd.[1]
Operator: Canadian National Steamships[1]
Port of registry: Halifax, Nova Scotia[1]
Builder: Halifax Shipyards Ltd, Nova Scotia[1]
Launched: January 1922[1]
Completed: 1922
Out of service: 1939
Identification:
Fate: Sold
United Kingdom
Name: SS Argos Hill
Namesake: Argos Hill, Mayfield, East Sussex
Owner: Ernels Shipping Co, London[2]
Operator: Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London[2]
Port of registry: London
Acquired: 1939[2]
Out of service: August 1945[2]
Identification:
  • call sign GTTP[2]
  • official number 150465[2]
Fate: Burnt out
General characteristics
Type: refrigerated cargo ship
Tonnage:
  • 7,178 GRT
  • 6,664 tonnage under deck
  • 4,418 NRT[1]
Length: 430.0 ft (131.1 m)[1]
Beam: 56.2 ft (17.1 m)[1]
Draught: 29 ft 2 in (8.89 m)[1]
Depth: 34.8 ft (10.6 m)[1]
Installed power: 705 NHP[1]
Propulsion: Triple expansion steam engine; screw[1]

The ship had 12 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 264 square feet (25 m2) heating her four 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of 10,848 square feet (1,008 m2).[1] The boilers fed a 705 NHP triple expansion steam engine that was built by Tidewater Shipbuilders Ltd of Trois-Rivières, Quebec.[1] Her hull had a 13-ton fore peak tank and a 128-ton aft peak tank.[1]

The ship's first manager was Canadian National Steamships, which set up a one-ship company, Canadian Constructor Ltd, to own her.[1]

In 1939 she was sold to Ernels Shipping Co of London, who registered her in London as SS Argos Hill and her placed under the control of Counties Ship Management.[2] She was damaged in an air attack on Convoy OA 178 in the English Channel on 4 July 1940.[3]

Argos Hill survived and remained in service until after the surrender of Germany, but was destroyed by fire on 7 August 1945[2][4] just a week before the surrender of Japan.

Footnotes
  1. Lloyd's Register 1935.
  2. "Lloyd's Register of Shipping" (PDF). Lloyd's Register. 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  3. Slader 1988, p. 55.
  4. Swiggum, S (1997–2010). "Canadian Government Merchant Marine CGMM, Montreal 1918-1928". The Ships List. S Swiggum & M Kohli. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2010.

References

Sources & further reading
  • Sedgwick, Stanley (1993) [1992]. Kinnaird, Mark; O'Donoghue, K.J. (eds.). London & Overseas Freighters, 1948-92: A Short History. Kendal: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-68-1.
  • Sedgwick, Stanley; Sprake, R.F. (1977). London & Overseas Freighters Limited 1949-1977. Kendal: World Ship Society. ISBN 0905617037.
  • Slader, John (1988). The Red Duster at War. London: William Kimber & Co Ltd. pp. 54–55. ISBN 0-7183-0679-1.
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