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Type :	Iron paddlewheel steamer
Launched  :	1853
Builder :	John Laird and Company Liverpool, UK
Gross  :	356 tons, 419 tons after 1873
Dimensions :	158.6 (feet), 180.9 (feet) after 1859
Passenger capacity :	1100
Speed :	14 knots

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As built she was a schooner rigged vessel with three masts, after 1859 these were reduced to two. She was registered in Sydney to the Australasian Steam Navigation Company.

In the 1860s she was chartered to Henry Gilbert Smith and ran several excursion trips to Manly.

Collaroy was involved in a collision with Ida between Long Reef and Sydney on 4 August 1875. The vessel was sold to the Newcastle Steam Navigation Company in 1879 and was from that point on based in Newcastle.

At 4.15am on the 20th of January 1881 just to the north of Sydney on a trip from Newcastle the vessel encountered heavy fog and was driven aground at the beach that now carries her name. She remained there for nearly four years before being finally salvaged.

In 1884 (after salvage) the vessel was sold to John  Robertson of Sydney and then sold again in 1888 to Alexander Burns, timber merchant, of Balmain. He converted the vessel into a  four masted schooner rigged sailing vessel at that time.

She was wrecked off the Californian coast in 1889.