SS ''Nyanza'' is a disused passenger-cargo steamer on
Lake Victoria
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in
East Africa
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. She is one of seven
Clyde-built ships called ''Nyanza'' that were launched between 1867 and 1956.
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History
Bow, McLachlan and Company
Bow, McLachlan and Company was a Scottish Marine propulsion, marine engineering and shipbuilding company that traded between 1872 and 1932.
History
1872–1914
In 1872 William Bow and John McLachlan founded the company at Abbotsinch, Renfrewshi ...
of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built SS ''Nyanza'' in 1907 for the Uganda Railway.[ She was a "knock-down" vessel; that is, she was constructed in the normal fashion at the shipyard in Paisley, then, after all her parts had been marked with identifying numbers, disassembled and transported by sea in kit form to Kenya for reassembly and fit-out.
Ownership of ''Nyanza'' passed from the Uganda Railway to its successors Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours in 1929 and the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation in 1948. In 2002 she was owned by a private company, Delship Ltd, that planned to convert her into a motor vessel.][ As of 2019, ''Nyanza'' was still laid up at Kisumu, along with fleetmate .]
SS ''Nomadic''
''Nyanza''s boilers and Compound engine#Multiple expansion engines, triple expansion engines are of a similar size to those originally installed in the White Star Line ship , which was built in 1911 as a Ship's tender, tender to and .[ As of 2019, the engines and boilers are still intact and inside ''Nyanza''.]
See also
* Lake Victoria ferries
References
External links
* — photos of various former EAR&H ships lying derelict at Kisumu, including SS ''Nyanza'' and
1907 ships
Ships built on the River Clyde
Lake Victoria
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