Custodian: University of Glasgow Archive Services

Reference: DC101/0387

Name: ss Mahanadi

Built: Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., 1892

Owner: Bombay Steam Navigation Co.

Type: cargo; passenger

Status: scrapped, 1927

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.