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] 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.