She was built in 1956 by Alexander Stephen and Sons, of Glasgow, Scotland, and scrapped at Taiwan in 1973.

[1] She had three passenger decks[2] with cabins for 96 first class passengers,[3] public rooms and open-air deck spaces, centered between four large refrigerated cargo holds, two forward and two aft, that could handle 140,000 stems (1,750 tons) of bananas.

[2] Her main trade was general cargo outwards (mostly British manufactured goods), returning with bananas.

[2] She was routed on 4–5 week voyages from Southampton (rarely Avonmouth) in England to Trinidad (for bunkers); up to 5 ports on Jamaica (Kingston, Port Antonio, Montego Bay, Oracabessa and Bowden).

The intermediate Jamaican ports were less sophisticated then; and most of them loaded bananas through side-shell doors in the ship while she anchored in the bay (mostly at Oracabessa and Montego Bay) from lightering craft that were sculled out under one-man power.