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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SSNyanza |
| Namesake | Nyanza Province, southwestKenya |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry |   Kisumu |
| Builder | Bow, McLachlan & Co,[2]Paisley, Scotland |
| Yard number | 220[2] |
| Launched | 1907[2] |
| Completed | 1907 |
| Maiden voyage | 1907 |
| In service | 1907 |
| Status | Scrapped in 2024Kisumu |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger-cargo ship[2] |
| Tonnage | 812 GRT[2] |
| Installed power | Two 450 hptriple expansion engines supplied byBabcock & Wilcox boilers[1] |
| Propulsion | Twin-screw propellers[2] |
SSNyanza is a disused passenger-cargo steamer onLake Victoria inEast Africa. She is one of sevenClyde-built ships calledNyanza that were launched between 1867 and 1956.[2]
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Bow, McLachlan and Company ofPaisley inRenfrewshire,Scotland built SSNyanza in 1907 for theUganda Railway.[2] 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 toKenya for reassembly and fit-out.
Ownership ofNyanza passed from the Uganda Railway to its successorsKenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours in 1929 and theEast African Railways and Harbours Corporation in 1948. In 2002 she was owned by a private company, Delship Ltd, that planned to convert her into amotor vessel.[1] As of 2019,Nyanza was still laid up atKisumu, along with fleetmateSS Usoga.[3]
Nyanza's boilers andtriple expansion engines are of a similar size to those originally installed in theWhite Star Line shipSS Nomadic, which was built in 1911 as atender toRMS Olympic andRMS Titanic.[4] In 2008 the Nomadic Preservation Society launched an unsuccessful appeal for£200,000 to buyNyanza's engines and boilers, ship them to the United Kingdom and install them inNomadic.[4] As of 2019, the engines and boilers are still intact and insideNyanza.[3]
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