| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SS Nyanza |
| Namesake: | Nyanza Province, southwest Kenya |
| Operator: | Uganda Railway 1907-29; Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours1929-48; East African Railways and Harbours Corporation after 1948; Delship Ltd. ca. 2002[1] |
| Port of registry: | Kisumu |
| Builder: | Bow, McLachlan & Co,[2] Paisley, Scotland |
| Yard number: | 220[2] |
| Launched: | 1907[2] |
| Status: | in service 2002[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cargo ship[2] |
| Tonnage: | 812 GRT[2] |
| Installed power: | two 450 hp triple expansion engines supplied by Babcock & Wilcox boilers[1] |
| Propulsion: | screw[2] |
SS Nyanza is a cargo ship on Lake Victoria in East Africa. She is one of at least six Clyde-built ships called Nyanza that were launched between 1867 and 1956.
Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built SS Nyanza in 1907 for the Uganda Railway.[2] She was a "knock down" vessel; that is, she was bolted together in the shipyard at Paisley, all the parts marked with numbers, disassembled into many hundreds of parts and transported in kit form by sea to Kenya for reassembly.
Ownership of Nyanza passed from the Uganda Railway to its successors Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours in 1929 and the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation in 1948. In 2002 she was owned by a private company, Delship Ltd, that planned to convert her into a motor vessel.[1]