SS Sir Harvey Adamson was a coastal passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1914 for the British India Steam Navigation Company (BI).

The combined power of her twin engines was rated at 155 NHP[4] or 700 IHP, and gave her a speed of 12 knots (22 km/h).

[7] Sir Harvey Adamson's regular route was along the coast of Tenasserim (now Tanintharyi Region and Mon State).

[2] According to another, in May 1917 she became subject to the Liner Requisition Scheme, and towed inland waterway craft from Bombay to Basra for service on the Tigris–Euphrates river system in the Mesopotamian campaign.

[2][3] In 1945 the Japanese occupation of Burma ended, and in 1946 Sir Harvey Adamson returned to her commercial service.

At 1610 hrs the next day she radioed that she would be late reaching Tavoy (Dawei), due to a south-easterly galeand heavy rain.

On 29 June 1947 it surmised that the ship had sought shelter among the Middle Moscos Islands, and had struck one of the Second World War mines known to remain in that area.