The Liverpool-based Booth Line began regular steamship services to Brazil in 1866 and, by the turn of this century, had become one of the principal operators on that route. Amongst a number of new vessels ordered for the expanding fleet was Anselm (II), laid down at Workman, Clark's Yard at Belfast in 1904 and the company's largest vessel to date when she was launched the following January. Registered at 5,442 tons gross, she measured 400 feet in length with a 50 foot beam and could make 14 knots under full power. Her maiden voyage in 1905 inaugurated what should have been a promising career, but on 5 September that same year she collided with and sank her consort Cyril (formerly the old Castle Line steamer Hawarden Castle of 1883) whilst steaming up the Amazon to Manaos; no lives were lost but this was Booth's first loss in 39 years of existence and an unfortunate start for Anselm II whose master was held solely reponsible for the disaster. Thereafter steady and reliable, Anselm II was retained by Booth's until 1922 when she was sold to Argentinian owners who renamed her Comodoro Rivadavia. Resold to the Argentinian Government in 1944 and this time renamed Rio Santa Cruz, she was finally scrapped at Rio de Janeiro in 1959.