Her crew included Thomas Pearce, who had also survived the wreck of Loch Ard in Australia the previous year.

She was carrying emigrants as passengers, and a cargo of spirits, linen, iron railings, coal, machinery, and gunpowder.

On 13 January she grounded on Skullmartin Rock in Ballywalter Bay, on the coast of the Ards Peninsula, County Down.

[1] They included apprentice Thomas Pearce, who had survived the wreck of Loch Ard only seven months earlier.

Most of her cargo was salved but tugs failed to free the ship,[4] and on 18 February she was given up as a total loss.