Built as a cargo-passenger vessel under yard no 189 by AKT Burmeister & Wain at Copenhagen for the A/S Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (N. Andersen mgr.) at Bangkok.
Tonnage 779 gross, 476 net, 710 dwt., dim. 60.9 x 8.6 x 5.1m. (draught).
One triple expansion steam engine, 570 hp., speed 10 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 18 passengers in one class, could take also deck passengers. Crew 38.
Jan 1899 launched under the name MAHA VAJIRAVUDH. Homeport Bangkok.
23 March 1899 delivered to owners.
Used in the Far East in the Shanghai-Tientsin route.
Dec. 1901 sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd at Bremen, renamed in MEDAN.
Used by the N.D.L in the coastal trade in Malacca.
Arrived 23 May 1904 at Sydney from Hong Kong via the Carolines, Marianas, and Marshall Islands at that time all German colonies loaded with a cargo of copra for transshipment to the WEIMAR.
After discharging, chartered by the Jaluit Co as replacement for its stranded OCEANA.
24 Dec. 1904 sold to the Hamburg Amerika Linie at Hamburg, renamed on 20 March 1905 PEIHO.
Used in the service between Shaghai and Tientsin until the middle of 1908.
From July 1908 chartered by the Hanseatic South Seas Expedition from Hamburg, used for their ethnographic expedition in the South Sea.
12 May 1910 sold to T.Uda at Hamadera, renamed TENCHI MARU.
1911 Again sold to H.Sasaki at Osaka.
10 April 1914 Sold to Osaka Shosen K.K., Osaka, and her tonnage is then given as 831 gross.
24 Jan. 1926 stranded near Tsushima Island on a voyage from Moji to Fusan loaded with general cargo.
Declared total loss
Palau 1984 40c sg 58.
Register of Merchant ships completed in 1899. Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen 1857-1970 by Edwin Drechsel.