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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.
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.
The Liberal steamship was built by Murdoch & Murray at yard number 199 of Port Glasgow in October 1904. It was commissioned by J.C Arana y Hermanos, a rubber firm with offices in the cities of Manaus and Iquitos, located along the Amazon River. Liberal first arrived in Iquitos in December 1904. [3]
The passenger steamers were also used as charters for day trips. Infamous among these are Lady Elgin which sank in 1861 with 300 lives lost, Eastland , which capsized in the Chicago River in 1915 with the loss of 844 lives, and Noronic , which burned at the wharf in Toronto , Ontario in September 1949 with the loss of 119 lives.
SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto its side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. [1] In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
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.
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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.