SS Nyanza (1907)
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = SS Nyanza.jpg | Ship caption = SS Nyanza and MV Reli in Kisumu }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship name = SS Nyanza | Ship namesake = Nyanza Province, southwest Kenya | Ship owner = | Ship operator = *Uganda Railway 1907–29; Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours 1929–48; East African Railways and Harbours Corporation after 1948; | Ship registry = {{flagicon|British East Africa}} {{flagicon|Kenya}} Kisumu | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Bow, McLachlan & Co,{{cite web |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust|title=Nyanza |work=Clyde-built Ship Database |url= http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=2711 |access-date=21 November 2016}} Paisley, Scotland | Ship original cost = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship completed = 1907 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = 1907 | Ship in service = 1907 | Ship out of service = | Ship identification = | Ship fate = | Ship status = Laid up as of 2007 in Kisumu | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = | Ship type = Passenger-cargo ship | Ship displacement = | Ship length = | Ship beam = | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship depth = | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship power = Two 450 hp triple expansion engines supplied by Babcock & Wilcox boilers | Ship propulsion = Twin-screw propellers | Ship speed = | Ship capacity = | Ship crew = | Ship notes = }} |
SS Nyanza is a disused passenger-cargo steamer on Lake Victoria in East Africa. She is one of seven Clyde-built ships called Nyanza that were launched between 1867 and 1956.
History
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Bow, McLachlan and Company of 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|Usoga}}.{{cite web |url=https://www.tuko.co.ke/309740-uhuru-quietly-returns-lakeside-city-inspects-ksh-3-billion-renovation-works-kisumu-port.html |title=Uhuru quietly returns to lakeside city, inspects KSh 3 billion renovation works at Kisumu port |date=7 July 2019 |access-date=19 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707082707if_/https://www.tuko.co.ke/309740-uhuru-quietly-returns-lakeside-city-inspects-ksh-3-billion-renovation-works-kisumu-port.html#309740 |archive-date=7 July 2019}}
SS ''Nomadic''
Nyanza{{'}}s boilers and triple expansion engines are of a similar size to those originally installed in the White Star Line ship {{SS|Nomadic|1911|6}}, which was built in 1911 as a tender to {{RMS|Olympic}} and {{RMS|Titanic}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.nomadicpreservationsociety.co.uk/news.asp?p=62 |title=7 September 2008 |publisher=Nomadic Preservation Society |access-date=15 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505055241/http://www.nomadicpreservationsociety.co.uk/news.asp?p=62 |archive-date=5 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }} In 2008 the Nomadic Preservation Society launched an unsuccessful appeal for £200,000 to buy Nyanza{{'}}s engines and boilers, ship them to the United Kingdom and install them in Nomadic. As of 2019, the engines and boilers are still intact and inside Nyanza.
See also
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External links
- {{cite web |url= http://www.mccrow.org.uk/eastafrica/eastafricanrailways/DeathOfFleet.htm |last=McCrow |first=Malcolm |title=Death of a Fleet at Kisumu |work=Memories of East Africa |year=2007}} — photos of various former EAR&H ships lying derelict at Kisumu, including SS Nyanza and {{SS|Usoga}}
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Category:Ships built on the River Clyde
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