As USS Zuiderdijk she made five return voyages across the North Atlantic and back: three before the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and two afterward.

She passed through Welsh, Dutch, Scots, Italian and Greek management, and was registered in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy and Costa Rica.

In 1912 and 1913 William Gray & Company of West Hartlepool, England, built three 400-foot (122 m) sister ships for the shipowner Frank C Strick & Co. Yard number 802 was launched in March 1912, and completed that May, and named Arabistan.

[2] But in 1913 Strick sold Arabistan to the British India Steam Navigation Company (BI), who renamed her Chindwara.

[7][5] Around the time Sharistan was completed, Holland America Line (NASM) bought her and renamed her Zuiderdijk.

[5] By 1918 Zuiderdijk was the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico,[6] sheltering from the Imperial German Navy's unrestricted submarine warfare.

On 21 March 1918 the United States Customs Service seized 89 Dutch ships in US ports under angary.

On 4 May she reached New York, where she discharged her cargo and loaded United States Army supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces.

On 17 May she left New York as part of a convoy, and on 1 June she reached Le Havre in France, where she discharged her cargo.

[6] Zuiderdijk went from New York to Norfolk, Virginia, where she loaded cargo for the United States Shipping Board.

Italy signed the Armistice of Cassibile in September 1943, and that December the Italian government requisitioned Edera for Allied service.

[12] In 1956 the Compañía Maritima Caribe SA acquired Edera, renamed her Frin, registered her in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, and appointed Constantinos A Petroutsis of Piraeus, Greece to manage her.

Later that year her ownership and management passed to the Linea Adriatico Golfo Persa Limitada, who renamed her Mahfuz.