Custodian: University of Glasgow Archive Services

Reference: DC101/0983

Names: ss Burma; Florentia; Safina-E-Nusrat

Built: William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, 1914

Owners: British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co.; Burmah SS Co.; Nav Florencia; Pan-Islamic SS Co.

Type: passenger;cargo

Routes: UK-Brazil

Status: scrapped, 1957

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.