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SS Robert Coryndon

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She was a "knock-down" ship. She was assembled in 1929 at Woolston. All her parts were marked with numbers, she was disassembled into many hundreds of parts, and transported in kit form to Africa, where she was reassembled on the shore of Lake Albert in 1930. Part of the overland journey to Lake
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She was built in England in 1929 and reassembled in kit form at Lake Albert in 1930. She ran aground in 1962 and lay derelict until she was broken up for scrap between 2009 and 2012.
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was part of a plan for a network of railway, river steamer and lake steamer services linking British interests in
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Albert was by lorry, which severely limited the maximum size and weight of her parts.
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100 Years of Specialized Shipbuilding & Engineering
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By the beginning of 2012 her wreck had been taken away
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in 1929–30. She was named after the South African Sir
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Robert Coryndon
Governor of Uganda
Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours
East African Railways and Harbours Corporation

Butiaba
Lake Albert
Kasenyi
Lake George
J.I. Thornycroft & Co
Woolston
screw
Lake Albert
John I. Thornycroft & Company
Woolston, Hampshire
Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours
Robert Coryndon
Governor of Uganda
Egypt
Winston Churchill
Ugandan independence from Britain
East African Railways and Harbours Corporation
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"General Notice No 197; Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours; Steamer Services, Lake Albert"


"Gazette Notice No 265; East Africa Railways & Harbours"

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