Her first owner was Dornoch Shipping Co Ltd, which registered her in Glasgow and contracted Lambert Bros Ltd to manage her.

[1] In 1938 the Carslogie Steam Ship Co bought her, renamed her Carsbreck and contracted Honeyman and Company of Glasgow to manage her.

The convoy was overwhelmed by a wolfpack of U-boats, and at 0204 hours on 18 October U-38, commanded by Heinrich Liebe, torpedoed and badly damaged Carsbreck.

She carried a cargo of 6,000 tons of iron ore.[2] At 0636 hours on 24 October 1941 Reinhard Suhren's U-564 sighted the convoy and fired five torpedoes at it.

16 crew members and two DEMS gunners survived and were rescued by the Free French Élan-class aviso Commandant Duboc.