This ship was ordered by currently unknown owners as King of the Greeks.
In Duncan Haws' book, 'Merchant Fleets in Profile 1', it is stated that the ship was bought on the stocks and named Malacca. Her original Richardson's 2-cylinder horizontal direct-acting steam engine was replaced in 1874 by a 2-cylinder compound inverted engine, also from Richardson's.
In 1871, the ship rescued the crew of H.M.S. Megaera on St. Paul's Island in the Indian Ocean.
In 1882 the ship was sold at Bombay to an agent of the Sultan of Zanzibar for £14,916, and then to Dutch owners in 1894.
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King of the Greeks - a general history
