The ship was lost in July 1883 when en route from Liverpool to Bombay carrying a cargo of steam coal.

Her captain at the time was John Arthurson from Shetland and her crew included sailors from Britain, Scandinavia, Ireland, and Canada.

[2][3] On 19 December 2015, searchers for the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 using sonar discovered wreckage at a depth of 12,000 feet (4,000 m) on the seabed of the southern Indian Ocean, 1,500 miles (2,400 km) to the west of Australia.

Coal recovered from the site was found to be of British origin,[5] and the dimensions of the wreck matched those of the West Ridge.

[6] Ross Anderson, curator of maritime archaeology at the Western Australian Museum, said that the possibility that the wreck was Kooringa (1894) or Lake Ontario (1897), also lost in the area, was less likely.