In 1893 the cargo ship Indralema was launched at C. S. Swan & Hunter in Newcastle-on-Tyne for T. B. Royden of Liverpool. At the time of her build she was described as being "a fine specimen of the most improved type of modern cargo steamer". Her trials took place on Feb. 28, 1894 and the ship was found to be quite satisfactory, she was then put in service on the Bombay route. In 1900 she was sold to the Ulster Steamship Company and renamed Bray Head.

In 1917 she was still afloat and now helping in the war effort. Her end came on March 14, 1917 when SMS U-44 located her on the surface and with her deck gun sank the ship. The crew abandoned in two lifeboats and twenty of them were picked up by HMS Adventure, but sadly twenty-one survivors in the second boat were never seen again.