Many of these were emigrating under duress from the trustees of the Boreraig, Suishnish and North Uist estates of Lord Macdonald.

The voyage proved disastrous, beginning almost immediately with a horrific storm, during which the ship sought refuge at Rothesay.

Soon after their second departure in early January 1853, outbreaks of smallpox and typhus were discovered, necessitating a three-month quarantine at Queenstown, County Cork.

56 people died, 17 orphaned children were returned home and many others were assigned to a dozen other ships, families being broken up in the process.

In 1854 she proceeded to Hong Kong to serve as a depot and receiving ship, and she was sold there on 22 August 1865 to be broken.