to own Box Hill, which Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn on the River Tyne had built in 1920 as the . Sussex Steamship Co. Ltd. was created to own , which had been built by Richardson, Duck and Company at Thornaby-on-Tees in 1917 as the Cardigan. They were followed in 1935 by the First World War standard cargo ship Hampton Hill which had been built in 1919 as War Jasper. Acquisitions in 1936 included two more First World War standard ships: the Campden Hill and the Muneric. Other 1936 acquisitions included Inverleith which had been built as a tanker but converted to a dry cargo ship. R&K also bought new ships. William Hamilton & Co built for R&K in 1938, who created Atlanticos Steam Ship Co to own her and registered her in Piraeus, Greece. On 9 October 1939 she ran aground on Ower Bank in the North Sea off Norfolk, England. The Cromer Lifeboat HF Bailey rescued all hands but one later died of his injuries. In 1934 R&K created Counties Ship Management Ltd (CSM) to manage ships owned by both its own companies and others. CSM ships had a buff funnel with a black top, and a red letter "C" inside a red circle on the buff part. Between 1936 and 1939 CSM companies bought ten second hand dry cargo steamships. Some were old. African Prince was a First World War B type standard merchant ship built in 1917 and became Pentridge Hill under CSM's Dorset Steamship Company in 1936. had been built in 1918 and became Dover Hill under CSM in 1936. Others were more modern, such as the 4,318 ton Peebles which had been built by William Doxford & Sons in Sunderland in 1930 and launched as . CSM continued to create single-ship companies for some of its new acquisitions. Brockley Hill Steamship Co Ltd. was created in 1939 to buy the 5,297 ton Penteli, which had been built by Caird & Co. in Greenock in 1919 as the War Burman. Ernels Shipping Co Ltd. seems to have been created in 1939 to buy the 7,178 ton , which had been built for Canadian National Steamships by Halifax Shipyards in Nova Scotia in 1922 and was renamed Argos Hill. Other CSM companies were expanded to own more than one ship. The majority of CSM's early ships were resold at a profit by 1939. Pentridge Hill, for example,