She was known for a fast passage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Kehei, Hawaii, of 35 days.

[2] Benicia was wrecked on Lafolle Reef off Haiti on 10 October 1920.

[3] At least two other sailing vessels also carried the name Benicia.

Gibbs reports that Turner's influence on the South Seas schooner was still evident as late as 1941, when a two-masted schooner, Benicia, built in Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked in Turner's yard, arrived in San Francisco under the French flag.

[2][4] An 899-ton iron ship named Benicia was launched in Oct. 1883, for Liverpool owners, by Whitehaven Iron Shipbuilding Co.[5]