Sir Harvey Adamson (ship, 1914)
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The Sir Harvey Adamson was a passenger ship of the British shipping company British India Steam Navigation Company put into service in 1914 , which disappeared without a trace on the coast of Burma in 1947 with 269 people on board and has not been discovered until today (2019).
The ship
The 1030 GRT steamship Sir Harvey Adamson was built in the Pointhouse dock of the A. and J. Inglis shipyard in Glasgow and was launched on November 27, 1914 with the hull number 306 on the Clyde . The passenger and cargo steamer was 66.75 meters long, 10.67 meters wide and had a maximum draft of 3.43 meters. The ship was completed on November 27, 1914 . The two three-cylinder triple expansion steam engines drove two propellers and made 155 nominal horsepower. They accelerated the ship to eleven knots (20.3 km / h). The two steam boilers were fired with coal. The Sir Harvey Adamson had room for twelve passengers in the first, twelve in the second and 476 in the third class.
The ship was named after Sir Harvey Adamson (1854–1941), who was Lieutenant Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from 1910 to 1915 . The steamer was built on behalf of the British India Steamship Navigation Company specifically for passenger, freight and mail services on the Yangon - Tavoy - Mergui route. It had a long protective deck with one of the two masts at each end . Their shallow draft was adapted to the shallow waters in the Mergui Archipelago . The double screw enabled particular maneuverability in the narrow passages.
During the First World War , the Sir Harvey Adamson served temporarily as a troop transport as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force . In the Second World War during the were Japanese occupation of Burma thousands of people from Burma rescued on board the ship. From March 1940 the ship belonged to the Liner Division . From 1943 until the end of the war, she also served as a supply ship that brought in military goods and oil. After the end of the war, the Sir Harvey Adamson served the Colombo - Thoothukudi route until it returned to its original route at the beginning of 1947.
The disappearance
On Thursday, April 17, 1947, the Sir Harvey Adamson cast off with 205 passengers and 64 crew members in Rangoon for another crossing to Tavoy and Mergui. The following day, she sent two more radio messages, the last one at position 13 ° 13 ' N , 97 ° 36' E , but then disappeared off Tavoy in a storm coming from the southwest .
Since then there has been no trace of the ship. There were no survivors; the wreck remains undiscovered to this day. Even the judicial investigation could not clarify the exact cause of the disappearance. It has been suggested that Sir Harvey Adamson on a sea mine from the Second World War was that through the storm broke and came to the surface, and that they went down before she could make emergency calls.