SS ''Canadian Constructor'' was a refrigerated ship built in 1922 by

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Ltd in

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. The ship had 12 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of heating her four 180 lb_f/in² single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 705 NHP

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that was built by Tidewater Shipbuilders Ltd of

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, Quebec. Her hull had a 13-ton fore peak tank and a 128-ton aft peak tank. The ship's first manager was

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, 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

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in the English Channel on 4 July 1940. ''Argos Hill'' survived and remained in service until after the

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, but was destroyed by fire on 7 August 1945 just a week before the surrender of Japan.

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