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The Peruvian Corporation, a UK-owned company, had controlled Peru's railways and lake shipping since 1890. Traffic had outstripped the capacity of the corporation's hitherto largest lake steamer SS Coya (546 tons) and ageing Yavari and Yapura.
Increasing traffic had outstripped their cargo and passenger capacities so the Peruvian Corporation, a UK-owned company that had taken over Peru's railways and lake shipping in 1890, ordered a much larger ship to supplement them. [2] Coya, at 546 tons and 170 feet (52 m) long, was the largest steamship on Lake Titicaca when she was launched in ...
Steamship Pacific in 1849: Pacific: 1850 Collided with SS Orpheus, and sank on November 4, 1875 SS Pacific, from a drawing commissioned early in its career. RMS Pannonia: 1902 Scrapped 1922 RMS Pannonia under way. SS Paris: 1916 Caught fire, and capsized in Le Havre on April 18, 1939; scrapped on the spot in 1947 S.S Paris circa 1916. SS Persia ...
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Yavari is a British-built iron steamship commissioned (along with her sister ship Yapura) by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca by the Peruvian Navy.. She is named after the Javary River in the Loreto Region of Peru, bordering the Amazonas State (), and was the first steamship to cross the highest navigable waters in the world.
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Later sold to the Japanese Oriental Steam Ship Co. She was scrapped in 1926. SS Peru (1892) (1892-1915) A 3,615 GRT steamship built by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, for Pacific Mail launched June 11, 1892. Peru, official number 150595, was the largest steel freight and passenger ship ever built on the Pacific coast at the time.