Custodian: University of Glasgow Archive Services

Reference: DC101/0617

Name: ss Transylvania

Built: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering, Govan, 1919–25

Owners: Anchor Line; Henderson Bros.; Admirality

Type: passenger; armed merchant cruiser

Routes: Glasgow-New York; Caribbean cruises (late 1930s)

Status: Sunk by torpedo, 1940

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.