Custodian: University of Glasgow Archive Services
Reference: DC101/0352
Name: ss Kyarra
Built: William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, 1903
Owners: Australasian United Steam Navigation Company
Type: passenger; cargo; hospital ship from 1914, brought medical units to Egypt from Australia; troop ship from 1915
Status: sunk on a return voyage from Tilbury, England to Australia was torpedo off the Isle of Wight, 1918
The photograph is part of a collection of ship portraits dating from the 1880s taken by James Adamson, a photographer from Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. His collection is one of the most comprehensive of sailing and steam ship photographs of the period. Most of the pictures were taken just after the ships were completed.