Designer Theodore Ernest Ferris (17 August 1872-1953), laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA on 20 January 1930, launched on 24 September 1930, handed over to the Atlantic, Gulf&West Indies Steamship Lines as the Borinquen on 20 February 1931, to be used by the subsidiary New York&Porto Rico Line on the route USA-Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic, requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration on 31 December 1941 from the Agwilnes, commissioned as the troop transport USAT Borinquen by the Transportation Corps, returned on 14 June 1946, sold to the American Bull Steamship Company on 25 April 1949, renamed Puerto Rico, acquired by the Arosa Line (Swiss owned Compania Internacional Transportadora), rebuilt and renamed Arosa Star and the end of her years used as immigrant ship, operated by the Canadian Western Steamship Company (McCormick Shipping), Toronto, Canada as the Panama-flagged Bahama Star on the route Florida, USA- Bahamas between 1959-1969, renamed La Janelle, and berthed at Port Hueneme, California, stranded in a storm on 13 April 1970 on Silver Strand Beach while berthed outside Port Hueneme when she lost in a storm her anchor still usually lying unused, partly broken up and scuttled filled with rocks as part of the breakwater.
