Her sister ships were the Lord Dufferin built in 1879 and the British Merchant built in 1880.

 

The Dawpool weighed 1697 tons, 262.9ft in length, 38.3ft wide and 23.3ft in depth.  She was built by Harland & Wolff  on their own account and launched in January 1880.  She was sold, at a loss, to Ismay, Imrie & Co.of Liverpool with Harland & Wolff owning a quarter share.  It was placed in the ownership of the North Western Shipping Company, which controlled all of Ismay, Imrie & Co’s sailing ships.  She was named after Thomas Ismay’s country house on the Wirral overlooking the Dee estuary.

 

In 1895, sold to Carl H. H. Winters, Elsfleth and renamed Willkommen. The ship was resold in 1906 to A/S Haakon (Alex. Bech), Tvedestrand and renamed Haakon. Henschiens Rederi A/S (Johs. A. Henschien) bought the vessel in May 1916 and renamed it Vestelv two months later.

 

22nd April 1917 she was stopped and scuttled 14 miles off Tory Island by German U-boat U-93.

 

From U-93,  a party was sent on board her armed with explosive charges. Vestelv was scuttled at 1230hrs. Fortunately, the crew of the Vestelv were allowed to take to their boats and row to the Tory Island light house from where they journeyed to Liverpool and reported the loss.