The Ceylon government could not use the ship effectively in deep sea fishing and auctioned the ship off in 1939 to C.S Krishnaswamy Naidu an industrialist from India. The ship was purchased to support deep sea fishing for Malabar Fisheries, a sardine canning company in Chaliyam, Calicut. However, the ship needed repairs before it could be put to use and was brought to Palluruthy (Kerala, India) and docked on the land for repairs.
