Despite the weather, the residents of Belfast, turned out in large numbers to see the launching of Harland & Wolff's new vessel, the Star of France. Shortly after 10 of the morning of November 21, 1877, Miss Corry christened the ship, and it rode down its ways into the harbor.

 

In 1899 she was sold to J.J. Moore & Company of San Francisco, then, in 1903 to Pope & Talbot of San Francisco. In the following year she was sold to the Puget Sound Commercial Company of Port Townsend and by 1905 was under the ownership of the Alaska Packers Association. She was being used to train Sea Scouts at San Francisco in 1928 and in 1932 was sold to Louis Rothenburg of Los Angeles.

 

In 1933 she was re-sold to Capt. J.M. Andersen for use as a fishing barge and renamed Olympic II but was much neglected. She was eventually moored off San Pedro breakwater where she remained until September 1940 when, in thick fog, she was rammed by a Japanese steamship and sank.