She was designed by Bernard Waymouth, and built in 1867 by J G Lawrie of Glasgow for Joseph Somes.

She had a particularly extreme hull shape, with a coefficient of under-deck tonnage of 0.54, a very low figure.

Being somewhat tender if pressed in heavy weather, she had to carry so much ballast that she was down to her marks before being fully laden.

Re-rigged as a barque in the 1890s, the ship was sold to R. Anderson of London and then to Ross & Company.

Her last owner was Seyed Youssouf bin Ahmed Zuwawee of Oman.