Built as a passenger- cargo vessel under yard No 55 by M.Pearse & Lockwood at Stockton, England for the West India & Pacific Line.
07 September 1865 launched under the name CHILIAN.
Tonnage 2.870 gross, dim. 104.50 x 12.86m.
Powered by one 2-cyl inverted steamengine, manufactured by Fossick, Blair & Co, Stockton, ?hp, speed 10 knots. One screw.
Passenger accommodation for 70 first and 200 third class passengers.
Clipper stem, three masts.
Before delivery acquired by the National Steam Navigation Company (National Line), Liverpool, renamed DENMARK.
09 May 1866 sailed for her maiden voyage from Liverpool via Queenstown to New York, after two days she lost her propeller and she returned back under sail to Liverpool.
01 August 1866 resumed her voyage after replacing the propeller.
1867 Company renamed in National Steamship Company Limited.
1870 Placed in the service between London and New York, sometimes a call was made at Le Havre, France.
1874 She was lengthened, and most probably her third class passenger accommodation then increased to 850 passengers.
Tonnage increased to 3.725 gross.
1880 Engines replaced by compound steamengines, manufactured by J.Jones & Sons, Liverpool, ?hp.
26 April 1891 again in the service from Liverpool to New York.
26 March 1892 made her last voyage in this service, thereafter again in the service between London and New York, with first sailing on 07 December 1892.
30 March 1894 made her last sailing.
1895 Scrapped.
Grenadines of St. Vincent 1982 60c sg218, scott?
Source: North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor.