[3] Measuring 81.2 metres (266 ft 5 in) long, with a beam of 11.8 metres (38 ft 9 in), a draught of 7.1 metres (23 ft 4 in) and a cargo capacity of 1,614 net register tons (NRT), it was a state-of-the-art windjammer when it began its use, for the jute trade between the ports of Dundee and Cardiff in Great Britain and Bombay and Calcutta / Hooghly River in East India.

Its rig was 'Scottish style', with royal sails above double top-sails and single topgallants.

County of Peebles represented an important development of sailing ship design, which allowed wind-powered ships to compete successfully on long haul routes with steamships during the last quarter of the 19th century.

[4] With its success R & J Craig ordered a further eleven similar four-masted 'full-rigged ships' for the thriving Indian jute trade, forming what was referred to as the Scottish East India Line.

Renamed Muñoz Gamero, it was used as a coal hulk at Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magellan.