Had two funnels, four masts (rigged for sails), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 16 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 220-1st and 1,500-3rd class.

 

She was rebuilt to 5,066 tons in 1895, had an extra deck added, triple expansion engines fitted by Harland & Wolff and her funnels lengthened.

 

On 13th February 1899 she capsized at her berth in New York due to weight of snow and ice on her upperdecks. In June the same year she was salvaged.

 

In 1905 she was sold to the Dominion Line and renamed Ottawa.

 

Renamed Gul Djemal for Turkish owners, she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine E.14 in the Sea of Marmora on 3rd May 1915. She was later salvaged and commenced her first Constantinople - New York voyage on 6th October 1920. Her fourth and last voyage on this service commenced 21st October 1921, and in 1928 her name was amended to Gulcemal. She was finally scrapped in 1950 at Messina, Italy.

 

[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.757-8]