Custodian: University of Glasgow Archive Services

Reference: DC101/0071

Name: ss Bohemian

Built: Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Linthouse, Govan, 1900

Owner: F. Leyland & Co. Ltd, Liverpool

Type: passenger; cargo

Routes: Liverpool-Boston

Status: sank after striking Black Rock off Sambro Island, Nova Scotia, March 1920

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.