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.[1]
Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built SS Nyanza in 1907 for the Uganda Railway.[1] 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.
Nyanza's boilers and triple expansion engines are of a similar size to those originally installed in the White Star Line ship SS Nomadic, which was built in 1911 as a tender to RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.[4] 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.[4] As of 2019, the engines and boilers are still intact and inside Nyanza.[5]
^ abcSchoute, Erik (4 April 2002). "M.V. Nyanza". Anja en Erik's Home Page. Anja & Erik Schoute. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
^. 7 July 2019. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ ab"7 September 2008". Nomadic Preservation Society. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^. 7 July 2019. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
External linksEdit
McCrow, Malcolm (2007). "Death of a Fleet at Kisumu". Memories of East Africa. — photos of various former EAR&H ships lying derelict at Kisumu, including SS Nyanza and SS Usoga
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