[1] Sardinian was constructed in 1874 at the Robert Steele & Co. shipyard at the Cartsburn yard in Greenock, United Kingdom for Allen Line.

[1] Sardinian sailed mostly from Liverpool or Glasgow to different destinations in Canada like Montreal, Quebec and Halifax with some stopovers in the American cities of New York, Baltimore and Portland.

The explosion killed and injured several Scandinavian passengers and the ship caught fire and was scuttled to extinguish it so that only her upper decks stuck out of the water.

The first deployment of Canadian Troops to a foreign war was aboard Sardinian sailing from Quebec City to the Boer war in South Africa in 1899 and the ship transported Guglielmo Marconi and his equipment on 26 November 1901 so he could set up a wireless station at St Johns, Newfoundland.

On 8 December 1920 she was sold again to Astoreca Azqueta and was reduced to a coal hulk at Vigo, Spain therefore ending her days at sea.