 Her identical sister ships, also built by William Beardmore and Company, were SS "Wandilla" (1912) and SS "Willochra" (1913).On 3 August 1918, she was transporting wounded soldiers from Le Havre, France to Southampton when she was torpedoed by the German submarine "UC-49".This was despite being marked clearly with the Red Cross; as with a number of other hospital ships torpedoed during the war, Germany claimed the ships were also carrying arms.