The ship was wrecked in August 1900, then salvaged and registered in the United States as Jessie Banning.

[1] The original power plant was a double-expansion steam engine, with high-pressure cylinder 25 inches in diameter, low-pressure of 48-inch diameter, and a stroke of 30 inches, and drove the ship, at least nominally, at 12 miles per hour.

[3][4] Boiler pressure was 100 pounds of steam and the engine turned 92 revolutions per minute at top speed.

[4][5] In 1890, the Union Steamship Company bought the ship from the estate of the Maharajah of Cutch (India), who had been using it as a yacht.

[5] Cutch carried passengers for the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had rail terminals at both Vancouver and Nanaimo, but which had not then entered into the steamship business.

In 1901 the ship was registered in the United States under the name Jessie Banning and given US registry number 77526.

[3] The ship was placed in service with the navy of Colombia and was their most powerful vessel on the Pacific Coast.