The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland, built her under order from the Ministry of War Transport and was delivered on 12 December 1943.

[1] As a MAC ship, only her air crew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel.

[2] She was operated by William Thomson & Co (the Ben Line).

[3] After the war the ship was converted to a grain carrier.

In 1967, while under Bulgarian management, she was trapped in the Suez Canal by the Six-Day War.