Her half-model is preserved in the collections of the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA. Stammers also reproduces what appears to be a set of blueprint lines of the ship without giving a source for these.

A description of the ship appeared in The Illustrated London News, June 1852.

1851 April 
     Launched at Marsh Creek near St John, New Brusnwick. Due to her size
     she grounded at the opposite shore of the creek where she remained for
     two weeks. 
1852 June 
     Bought by James Baines, Liverpool, for the Black Ball Line of Australia
     Packets. Rebuilt to be used in the passenger trade. Rebolted with yellow
     metal bolts and coppered. 
1852 
     Under the command of Captain James Nicol Forbes she made the voyage
     from Liverpool to Port Phillips Heads in 76 days. After three weeks she
     returned to London in another 76 days. This was the first recorded round
     trip in less than six months, or to be exact 5 months 21 days. 
1853 March 13 
Left Liverpool for Melbourne where she arrived after 75 days at sea. 
1854 [?] 
     Under the command of Captain Charles McDonald she made her third
     roundtrip in 72 days out to Australia and 78 days back to England. 
1861 
     Collided with an iceberg South of Cape Horn and arrived in Valparaiso
     leaking badly. After repairs she continuted to Liverpool where she arrived
     183 days out from Melbourne. 
1867 
     After having completed the journey Melbourne to Liverpool in 76 days
     she failed to pass the passenger survey and was put on the general cargo
     trade. 
1871 
     Sold to Wilson & Blain, South Shields, and put in the coal and timber
trade. 
1874 
     Reduced to barque rig. 
1881 
     Sold to Bell & Lawes, South Shields. 
1882 
     Sold to Capt. Bull, Christiania. 
1883 July 22 
     Sprang a leak and was beached near Cavendish, Prince Edwards Island.
     A subsequent gale broke up the ship. 

Select Bibliography:

     Chapelle, H.I.: The Search for Speed under Sail. New York, 1967. 
     Greenhill, Basil: Salvage from the Wreck of the Marco Polo. The
     Mariner's Mirror Vol. 49, London, 1963. p 145. 
     MacGregor, D.R.: Fast Sailing Ships, Nautical Publishing, 1973. 
     Stammers, Michael K.: The Passage Makers. Teredo Books, Brighton,
     1978. 
     Wallace, Frederick William: Wooden Ships and Iron Men, London, 1924.