[1] She was built by William Simons of Renfrew and launched on 9 March 1864.

She was completed in 1867 and owned by Ford and Jackson and deployed on their Milford to Cork route.

In 1887 she was chartered to the Weymouth and Channel Islands Steam Packet Company.

On 13 November 1893 she was involved in a collision with the SS Brook off Broadford, Isle of Skye, which resulted in a court case for damages.

[3] She ended her career freighting sheep from Islay to Glasgow, and her master, Lachlan McTavish was convicted at Glasgow Central Police Court with causing unnecessary suffering to the sheep.