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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 ...
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.
SS Inca was a steamship on Lake Titicaca in Peru. History. The Peruvian Corporation, a UK-owned company, had controlled Peru's railways and lake shipping since 1890.
The Contamana, a three ton steamship, was bought in Iquitos after Fitzcarrald returned from his first trip across the route. [ 79 ] [ 73 ] [ 71 ] On the second expedition in 1894, Fitzcarrald forced Piro [ 80 ] and Asháninka natives, as well as around 100 non-natives, under the threat of death to dismantle the Contamana steamship, [ 80 ] [ 81 ...
Guardián Ríos ARB-123 (1943) (also known as Ríos) ex-USS Pinto ATF-90, transferred to Peru 1960 on loan, and delivered January 1961, sold to Peru 17 May 1974. Still in service in 1992. Still in service in 1992.
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.
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.
The Peruvian Amazon Company, also known as the Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co., [4] was a rubber boom company that operated in Peru during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Headquartered in Iquitos , it gained notoriety for its harsh treatment of Indigenous workers in the Amazon Basin , whom its field forces subjected to conditions akin to slavery .