Completed as a cargo ship with accommodation for twelve passengers she undertook her maiden voyage to Rangoon, Burma, in 23 days and 20 hours, a record which stood for many years.

 

In 1892 she was converted to carry 70-1st class passengers.

 

She was replaced by the Herefordshire in 1905 and sold to the Danish East Asiatic Company who renamed her Kina.

 

In 1907 she was transferred to the Russian East Asiatic Company, a subsidiary, and made her first sailing from Libau to New York via Rotterdam as the Lituania on 4th July.

 

She commenced her last sailing to New York on 1st April 1912 and, in the following year, was sold to Shosho Kisen K. K. of Dairen, Japan  who changed her name to Daiten Maru.

 

On 6th March 1918 she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

 

[Merchant Fleets vols.29 & 43 by Duncan Haws] [North Atlantic Seaway vol.3, p.1355 by N.R.P.Bonsor]