Built by Harlan & Wolff Limited, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, 1881. 3699 gross tons; 410 (bp) feet
long; 40 feet wide. Compound engine, single
screw. Service speed 12 knots. 940
passengers ( 80 first class, 60 second class, 800 third
class ).
Built for British Shipowners Limited, British
flag, in 1881 and named British King.
Chartered to many other shipowners. Sold to Holland -
America Line, Dutch flag, in 1889 and renamed
Werkendam. Rotterdam-New York service. Sold to
Additional Arrivals, in 1900 and renamed
Harbin. Chinese Eastern Railway Company, British
flag. Scuttled by the Russians at Port Arthur in 1904.
