Converted to a tanker, she spent most of her career transporting molasses, a byproduct of sugar refining, to the United States.

During World War II, she transported petroleum before returning to the private sector.

She was laid down as Red Jacket,[2] yard number 1482 at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shipyard of the American International Shipbuilding Corporation, one of 110 Design 1022 cargo ships built for the United States Shipping Board.

[4] In 1921, she was purchased by the Dunbar Molasses Company[4] and converted into a tanker with a 344,963 gallon capacity.

[10] In the fourth quarter of 1948, she was broken up in New Orleans by the Southern Scrap Materials Company.