She was damaged in 1920–21 by a fire in her cargo, and wrecked in 1922 when she drifted ashore about 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Fremantle, Western Australia.

The site of her wreck is now called Kwinana Beach, and her remains are automatically protected by Australian Federal Law.

[1] She was a sail-steamer, rigged as a schooner but also powered by a 361 NHP three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine that gave her a speed of 19 kilometres per hour (10 kn).

[1] Currie Line used Darius for international trade, and particularly carrying horses and general cargo between Australia and Calcutta.

The SSS had her refitted with a passenger saloon in her stern and on 15 July formally renamed her Kwinana with a christening ceremony at Fremantle.

[2] The name means "young woman" or "pretty maid" in one of the Australian Aboriginal languages of the Kimberley region.

Then on 28 August 1914 she struck a rock in Cambridge Gulf, damaging hull plates beneath her engine room.

[3] On Christmas Day 1920 at 6:30 PM,[4] Kwinana was between Geraldton and Shark Bay laden with timber and other cargo[5] for delivery to Wyndham, Western Australia when her crew discovered a fire in her cross bunker, which contained 300 tonnes (300 long tons) of coal.

The salvage tug Wyola was sent from Fremantle[6] and flooded Kwinana, sinking her at Carnarvon jetty in about 5.8 metres (19 ft) of water.

[4] A Lloyd's surveyor, Captain Arundel, and the manager of the State Implement Works, Frank Shaw, declared her seaworthy to return to Fremantle.

The SSS summonsed each crew member for refusal of duty, so the Police Court Bench obtained an independent survey of the ship by Captain Mills, wharfinger of Carnarvon.

In a storm on 28 July 1922,[7][8][9] she broke her moorings, was blown across Cockburn Sound and ran ashore about 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Rockingham.

The Royal Australian Navy served notice for the wreck to be removed, so the SSS offered her for sale where she lay.