SS Canadian Constructor (original) (raw)

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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 24 September 1921
Completed 1922
Out of service 1939
Identification Call sign VGLZ[1] (from 1934) official number 150465[1]
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 United Kingdom 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]

SS Canadian Constructor was a 7,178 GRT[1] 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).[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.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Lloyd's Register 1935.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "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.