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  2. SS Ollanta - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Yavari (ship) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. SS Inca - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. SS Coya - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Category:1900 ships - Wikipedia

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  7. Historical photos: Vintage views of Block Island capture ...

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    In the days of steamships, it was a bustling place. Block Island has a history reaching back to the mid-17th century. In the days of steamships, it was a bustling place.

  8. List of Peruvian Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Pacific Mail Steamship Company - Wikipedia

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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.