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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 ...
The pieces were shipped by sea from King George Dock in Hull to Mollendo on the Pacific Ocean coast of Peru. [2] They were then delivered by rail to Puno on Lake Titicaca, [2] where Ollanta was finally riveted together and launched. Earle's put the engineer William Smale in charge of reassembling and launching Ollanta. [2]
Accordingly, in 1904, the corporation ordered the Inca, which at 1,809 tons was by far the lake's largest ship to date. [ 2 ] Earle's Shipbuilding of Kingston upon Hull on the Humber in England built Inca as a "knock down" ship; [ 2 ] that is, they assembled her in their shipyard with bolts and nuts, marked each part with a number and then ...
Pages in category "1900 ships" The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total. ... General Frisbie (steamship) USS George P. Squires; George R. Vosburg;
Kasato Maru or Kasado Maru (Japanese: 笠戸丸) was a Japanese cargo/passenger ship built by the British shipyard Wigham Richardson in 1900. Originally christened as SS Potosí, the ship was bought by the Russian Dobroflot, and renamed Kazan, being used as a hospital ship.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company (Spanish: Compañía de Vapores del Pacífico) was a British commercial shipping company that operated along the Pacific coast of South America, and was the first to use steam ships for commercial traffic in the Pacific Ocean. [1] At one point in the 1870s, it had the world's largest merchant steamship fleet.
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.
The shipping company is an outcome of the development of the steamship. In former days, when the packet ship was the mode of conveyance, combinations, such as the well-known Dramatic and Black Ball lines, existed but the ships which they ran were not necessarily owned by the organizers of the services. The advent of the steamship changed all ...