HMT Burma
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 21 Aug 1914 image | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMT Burma |
| Owner | British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co. |
| Builder | William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland |
| Yard number | 1011 |
| Launched | 21 Aug 1914 |
| Completed | 31 Oct 1914 |
| In service | 1914 |
| Fate | scrapped in 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / cargoe ship |
| Tonnage | 7,470 tons |
| Length | 466.5 ft |
| Beam | 58.1 ft |
| Depth | 33.2 ft |
| Propulsion | steel screw |
Remarks
Used on the UK to Brazil route. She was later sold 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.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 26 July - 22 August 1919
- John Arthur Butcher
- Henry Frampton (Harry) Clarke
- John Henry Hart
- Thomas Herbert Pierssene aka Thomas Herbert Pierssene