The ship is built to Lloyds’ 100 A1 class, with additions to the scantlings in various parts to meet the requirements of the traffic.

The first-class accommodation includes staterooms and beds for 36 passengers, with dining-saloon, smokeroom, ladies’-room, and conveniences, worked out in polished and hard woods, and finished in a tasteful manner.

Steam winches and cranes of new and powerful description are fitted, together with all necessary booms and derricks for the rapid working of cargo.

The machinery, also made by Earle’s Company, consists of a set of triple-compound three-crank engines, having cylinders 22in, 35in, and 57in diameter, with a stroke of 42in, and two steel single ended boilers, 14ft 3in mean diameter by 11ft inside length at top, made in accordance with Lloyd’s and the Board of Trade requirements for a working pressure of 170lbs per square inch.In 1897 she was acquired by the Great Central Railway.

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway who kept her until 1932 when she was sold to the British and Irish Steam Packet Company and scrapped in the following year.