Custodian: University of Glasgow Archive Services

Reference: DC101/0995

Name: ss Caledonia

Built: D. & W. Henderson Ltd, Glasgow, 1905

Owner: Anchor Line

Type: passenger; troop ship from 1914

Route: UK-USA

Status: sunk by torpedo, 1916

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.