 In 1916, while crossing the Atlantic with horses for the war effort and carrying a large number of newly collected dinosaur fossils (two of which were the hadrosaurs "Corythosaurus"), she was captured and scuttled complete with her cargo.Following acquisition of Beaver Line in 1899 and resolving all the legal questions surrounding it, Elder, Dempster & Co. placed an order for a vessel of approximate 11,000 deadweight to run on this line between Liverpool and Canadian ports and New Orleans.