She was built by John Bishop, during the winter of 1899-1900 at the Vincent Cove yard in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Subsequently they installed a larger, 150 horse power engine, which increased her speed to 8 knots.

With the larger engine she began her true mackerel fishing career, with Jacobs as captain.

The month after launch, and two weeks after heading to sea on April 12, 1900, she arrived in New York with over 200 barrels of fresh mackerel, which sold for nine or ten cents a pound.

[2] On October 25, 1901—seventeen months after her launch—she caught fire at North Sydney, Nova Scotia from a leak in the gasoline apparatus and burned to the waterline.