She was originally built for the South Georgia Co. Ltd. by Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) and operated by
Christian Salvesen & Co.,
Leith, UK. She was launched on 30 July 1930 with a displacement of 268 tons. She was taken over by the
Admiralty in April 1940 and assigned to the
Royal Naval Patrol Service. Under the command of Lt. John McDonald Ruttan,[2] DSC,
RCNVR she was bombed and sunk off
Alexandria,
Egypt on 8 April 1942.[3]