She built for John Lidgett & Sons, Indian traders of London, by Charles Connell and Co of Glasgow and launched in March 1865 (yard number 26).

Having completed her final voyage from New Zealand in May 1898 she was sold to a Norwegian company, Daniel Steen, of Kristiania Oslo for £2,950 on or before 8 June 1898.

[6] She was noted as having made the fastest journey from Lyttleton to London by sail around Cape Horn.

[7] In late August 1886 the Crusader sailed from Wellington to Auckland to pick up more cargo before returning to London.

[8] On 17 July 1889, while sailing from London to Lyttleton she was caught in a heavy storm which damaged her forecastle, smashed two boats and the foreward deckhouse, and carried 80 feet of top-gallant bulwarks.

[10][11] Her new owner, Steen or Stein, sailed her to Fremantle in January 1899 via Algoa Bay to collect a load of timber.