Sister of the Venetian and the Syrian she was launched on 12th November 1860 and delivered to J. Bibby & Sons on 24th November. Chartered to P&O she operated the same route as her sisters, was lengthened and equipped with a compound engine in 1872 and sold to Frederick Leyland & Company in 1873.

 

In 1878 she was chartered to the African Steam Ship Company and acquired by the company and renamed Mayumba in 1880, commencing her first sailing on 13th November of that year.

 

She hit and sank R. Gayner's barque Severn off Madeira in 1881.

 

Acquired by C. R. Gillchrist of Liverpool in 1882 she ended her career in the following year when she caught fire when at Arzue in Algeria. The ships was scuttled but declared a total loss.