[1] Launched in 1911 to carry the Royal Mail and served on the San Francisco and Sydney runs.

After finishing her troop service in June 1919 she was refurbished and converted from coal to oil burning at Port Chalmers.

[2] She was sold to Cia Naviera del Atlantica, Piraeus in 1948 and renamed Cyrenia.

She was sold in 1949 to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines and undertook service from Genoa and Piraeus to Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney, carrying Greek, Italian and Jewish refugees and migrants.

[3][4][5] On 1 November 1956 she left Melbourne for the last time, arriving in Savona, Italy, on 6 February 1957 for ship breaking.