[ She traveled around the Cape of Good Hope without passengers and used sail for a large part of the trip.

At Singapore, America began to pick up Chinese for steerage passage and eventually arrived in San Francisco on 20 October 1869 with 730 immigrants.

On December 23, 1871, the Japanese Iwakura Mission boarded the ship in Yokohama harbor.

Under Captain Doane were 24 officers and 79 sailors and stewards, making a complement of 103.

The ship was powered by a balance-wheel steam-engine driving external paddle-wheels.TSS America was lost by fire on August 24, 1872, in Yokohama harbor, Japan after her eleventh voyage starting on August 1, 1872, from San Francisco to Yokohama and Hong Kong, China.