Sister ships: Coptic, Doric

 

Initially square rigged on the first three masts and later on the foremast only.

 

In 1894 she was returned to Harland and Wolff, re-engined, refrigeration fitted and accommodation modernised.

 

1899 became a Boer War transport, made her final sailing for Shaw Savill & Albion on 21st December 1899 and chartered to the Spanish Government to repatriate troops from the Philippines in 1900 after their war with the USA.

 

She was then sold to the Aberdeen Line, renamed Sophocles and her final sailing rigging removed. Used on their London - Cape Town - Australia service until 1906, sold for scrapping the following year and broken up at Morecombe.