Ukerewe (ship)
 The Ukerewe on a picture collection
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The Ukerewe was a steam pinasse on Lake Nyanza , now known as Lake Victoria.
history
In the course of the colonization of East Africa, efforts were made in the German Empire to finance and use steamers for all of the large African lakes. At the end of the 19th century, for example, Hermann von Wissmann and Hedwig von Wissmann were paid for by the so-called anti-slavery pilot , built in Europe and transported to Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika in disassembled condition .
The construction of a steamer for Lake Nyanza was suggested by Carl Peters . At about the same time as Hermann von Wissmann , Peters had started to raise money for such a steamer and had also been supported by the anti-slavery pilotage. But the company was unsuccessful. The vehicle that Dr. Carl Peters , was not used for its intended purpose.
Prince zu Wied finally arranged that an aluminum pinasse was financed with the funds from the anti-slavery pilot plant that had not yet been used . It was built by Escher, Wyß & Co. in Zurich , transported to the East African coast and then, dismantled into nine parts, carried to the lake. 473 girders had to be used for this. In Bissisi near Mwanza , Wilhelm Langheld built a shed in which the steamer was to be assembled.
Since March 1900 the Ukerewe has been sailing on Lake Victoria as a service boat of the Imperial Gouvernement of German East Africa . A lexicon entry from 1905 shows that the Ukerewe operated regularly . In 1909, the governorate sold the boat to the Nyassa Shipping Company , which converted the Ukerewe into a motorboat and used it on the lake under the name General Jungblut .
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the boat was taken over by the command of the protection forces. When the German position on Lake Victoria could no longer be held against the advancing British troops, the former Ukerewe , like other German watercraft, was sunk on July 15, 1916 in Stuhlmann Sound. The British raised the boat and put it into service under the name of General Hoskins . Before 1920, the motorboat was finally lost in a collision.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.namibiana.de/nicht-als-abentheurer-bin-ich-hierhergekommen.html
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Deutsch-Ostafrika
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945 Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, pages 220-221
