MAURITIUS was built in 1865 by John Key & Son of Kinghorn, Fife with a tonnage of 587grt, a length of 210ft, a beam of 26ft 5in and a service speed of 9 knots.

Similar in design to the Anglian she joined her sister on the Intercolonial service in 1865. When the service was discontinued in 1868 she was put up for sale at Southampton and acquired in the following year by Palgrave, Murphy & Co. of Dublin but then sold on to J. P. Hutchinson of Glasgow.

She had new boilers fitted in 1872 and a compound engine in 1876.

In 1901 she was sold to Sociadade 'La Mediterranea', of Barcelona with T. Fernandez as manager and renamed Industria.

She sank after a collision in 1910.