[1] During the Second World War, she was used on convoy duties to bring oil from the Persian Gulf around the Cape of Good Hope and to the United Kingdom.

She was part of Convoy SLS 60 in late December 1940, but was straggling behind the main group when she came under attack by a German U-boat and was sunk with heavy loss of life.

Her final convoy was to have taken her from Abadan to Swansea, via Freetown, which she reached on 22 December.

Two days later she was still straggling, when she was spotted by U-65, commanded by Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen.

There were thirteen survivors, nine of whom were later picked up by the cruiser HMS Hawkins on 3 January 1941 and taken to Freetown.