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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 ...
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;
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 ...
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.
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. Peru entered ...
Sold to Peru after the French government stopped to sale to the Confederacy. Scuttled January 1881 to avoid capture. [13] [4] America (1864) ex-CSS Texas, screw corvette and sister-ship of BAP Union. Sold to Peru after the French government stopped to sale to the Confederacy. Lost during the Arica tsunami on 13 August 1868.
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Pages in category "1900s ships" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E. USS Elizabeth (SP-1092)