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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
BUGANDA |
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Uga |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1925 |
25/07/1925 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Bow, McLachlan & Co. Ltd., Paisley |
Thistle Yard |
424 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
190 grt / / |
105 ft |
21 ft |
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Engine builder |
Bow, McLachlan & Co. Ltd., Paisley |
Engine detail |
500ihp, 1-screw |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Uganda Railway, Kampala (through Crown Agents) |
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Other names |
19xx AFRICAN QUEEN (unregistered) |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
1929 Kenya & Uganda Railways & Harbours Administration, Nairobi 1977 Tanzania Railways Corp, Dar es Salaam 19xx Hotel Tilapia, Mwanza, Tanzania |
Vessel history |
1925 shipped to Kisumu on Lake Victoria 1977 based at Mwanza 1980s laid up 19xx sold to a hotel chain in Mwanza, to serve as additional floating accommodation, aptly named AFRICAN QUEEN (based on her brief appearance in the 1951 film of that name, as the German lake steamer LOUISA). 2020 still in service as floating accommodation |
Remarks |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
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Disposal Detail |
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