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Pages in category "Steamships of Peru" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. < Yavari (ship) C.
This flotilla was composed of the gunboat América, with the steamships Adolfo, Luz II, San Pablo, Cahuapanas and Liberal. [117] During the Colombia-Peru War, Liberal was commanded by lieutenant commander Manuel R. Nieto and lieutenant José Mosto, they were given orders to travel towards Leticia with the steamship. These two officers organized ...
Her four oil-fired steam engines gave her a top speed of 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph). [2] She was the Peruvian Corporation's most luxurious steamer on the lake [ 2 ] and the culmination of nearly 70 years' development of Titicaca steamers since the building of Yavari started in 1862.
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.
This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like.
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines [1] that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels. The first steamships came into practical usage during the early 19th century; however, there were exceptions that came before.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.