She was torpedoed and sunk in the Laccadive Sea west of Cape Comorin by the German submarine U-532 with the loss of five of her 77 crew members on 11 October 1943 during World War II.

Her triple expansion steam engine with single shaft and one screw had 3 cylinders with 24" and 40" diameter and had stroke of 65" and 45" generating 398 nominal horsepower.

[1][2][4] Vithalbhai Patel, then the speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly of British India, performed her ceremonial ship launching in Glasgow on 14 July 1927.

[5][6] The footage of launching was later presented in documentary film India's Struggle for National Shipping (1947).

[7][8][9][10][11] Mahatma Gandhi had written his concerns in Young India on its launch,The ceremony ... does not evoke any feeling of national pride or rejoicing.

The sadness of the reminder is heightened by the fact that our mercantile fleet may at any moment be turned into a fleet warring against our own liberty or against that of nations with which India has no quarrel...The ship was used to transport cargo between Karachi, Bombay and Colombo.

As she was the only escort, she soon joined the convoy again without picking up survivors due to fear of repeat attack.