Hawthorns & Co of Leith, Scotland built the yacht as yard number 105.

She had a single screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine that was rated at 74 NHP[3] or 650 ihp.

On 20 July she was commissioned at New York as USS Corona, with the pennant number SP-813 and code letters GSVL.

[2] Corona left New York on 30 July; sailed via St. John's, Newfoundland and the Azores; and on 30 August arrived in Brest, France.

[2] On 1 October 1921 Corona Oscar T Ledberg of Providence, Rhode Island bought her.

[11] On 25 April 1941, Corona capsized and sank in the Pacific off the Peruvian coast, about 20 nautical miles (37 km) northwest of the Guañape Islands.