A steel steamship of 808 gross register tons, she measured 175 feet (53 m) in length and could accommodate 50 salon and 40 steerage passengers.

On 16 January 1920, Sagona ran aground at Halifax, Nova Scotia, but incurred only minor damage.

During the winter sealing season of 1933, Sagona helped in the rescue of survivors of the SS Viking disaster in March of that year.

[2] Last used as a sealer in 1938, Sagona was sold by the Newfoundland Railway in 1941 to the Colliford Clarke Company of London.

Sagona was bound from Nice to Toulon when she was lost on 21 November 1945 after striking a mine five miles southeast of Porquerolles Island.