HMT Burma
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 21 Aug 1914 image | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMT Burma |
| Owner | British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. & Burmah S.S. Co.Ltd |
| Builder | William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland |
| Yard number | 1011 |
| Launched | 21 Aug 1914 |
| Completed | 31 Oct 1914 |
| In service | 1914 |
| Out of service | 1957 |
| Fate | Broken up in Karachi 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / cargoe ship |
| Tonnage | 7,470 tons |
| Length | 466.5 ft (141.85m) |
| Beam | 58.1 ft (17.71m) |
| Depth | 33.2 ft (10.10m) |
| Propulsion | steel screw |
Remarks
Built for the British and Burmese S.N. Co. Ltd., Glasgow and used on the UK to Brazil route. Sold again in 1949 to Cia.de.Nav Florencia and renamed SS Florentia, and in 1953 to Pan-Islamic Steam Ship Co who named her Safina-E-Nusrat, before being withdrawn from service and broken up in 1957.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 26 July - 22 August 1919
- John Arthur Butcher
- Henry Frampton (Harry) Clarke
- John Henry Hart
- Thomas Herbert Pierssene aka Herbert THOMAS