SS Canadian Constructor
| 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: | |
| Fate: | Burnt out |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | refrigerated cargo ship |
| Tonnage: | |
| 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 the 7th of August 1945[2][4] just a week before the surrender of Japan.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Lloyd's Register of Shipping" (PDF). Lloyd's Register. 1935. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Lloyd's Register of Shipping" (PDF). Lloyd's Register. 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ↑ Slader 1988, p. 55.
- ↑ Swiggum, S (1997–2010). "Canadian Government Merchant Marine CGMM, Montreal 1918-1928". The Ships List. S Swiggum & M Kohli. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
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 0-905617-01-0.
- Slader, John (1988). The Red Duster at War. London: William Kimber & Co Ltd. pp. 54–55. ISBN 0-7183-0679-1.