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SS Canadian Constructor

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Name
SS Canadian Constructor
Owner
Canadian Constructor, Ltd.
Operator
Canadian National Steamships
Port of registry
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Builder
Halifax Shipyards Ltd, Nova Scotia
Launched
24 September 1921
Completed
1922
Out of service
1939
Identification
Call sign VGLZ (from 1934) official number 150465
Fate
Sold
Name
SS Argos Hill
Namesake
Argos Hill, Mayfield, East Sussex
Owner
Ernels Shipping Co, London
Operator
Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London
Port of registry
London
Acquired
1939
Out of service
August 1945
Identification
Call sign GTTP official number 150465
Fate
Burnt out
Type
refrigerated cargo ship
Tonnage
7,178 GRT 6,664 tonnage under deck 4,418 NRT
Length
430.0 ft (131.1 m)
Beam
56.2 ft (17.1 m)
Draught
29 ft 2 in (8.89 m)
Depth
34.8 ft (10.6 m)
Installed power
705 NHP
Propulsion
Triple expansion steam engine; screw

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

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). The boilers fed a 705 NHP triple expansion steam engine that was built by Tidewater Shipbuilders Ltd of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Her hull had a 13-ton fore peak tank and a 128-ton aft peak tank.

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

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. She was damaged in an air attack on Convoy OA 178 in the English Channel on 4 July 1940.

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

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