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built her as a "knock down" vessel; that is, she was bolted together in the shipyard at Paisley, all the parts marked with numbers, disassembled into many hundreds of parts and transported in kit form by sea to
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In about 1984, she was laid up at Kisumu and later was used as an accommodation vessel. She later sank alongside, but in 2005 was raised. Her purchasers intended to lengthen and re-engine her for use as a
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Graham M. (1929.) The Victoria Nyanza and Its Fisheries: A Report on the Fish Survey of Lake Victoria 1927–1928 and Appendices. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies. 256pp.
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on the shore of Lake Victoria for reassembly and launch in 1913.
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Kavirondo
Uganda Railway
Uganda Railway
East Africa Protectorate
Kisumu
Kenya
Bow, McLachlan & Co
Paisley
Steam tug
GRT
steam tug
Lake Victoria
East Africa
Lake Victoria region
Lake Victoria steamships
Uganda Railway
Bow, McLachlan and Company
Paisley
Renfrewshire
Scotland
Mombasa
Kenya
Kisumu
First World War
gunboat
Michael Graham
Colonial Office
Fisheries Survey of Lake Victoria
tanker

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