Once displaced by steam, she was sold to owners who used her to transport Chilean nitrates to the United States – not a glamorous business. The loading port was Caleta Buena, north of Iquique, the smallest and bleakest of the nitrate ports, “clinging to the edge of the Tarapaca desert.” A seaman writing of this port during WWI said, “We have fallen into a lovely hole this time and no mistake”.