MV Liemba Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ship built in 1915
About MV Liemba
The ship was built in 1913 in Papenburg,Germany. She was then dismantled and shipped toKigomainGerman East Africain 5,000 wooden crates. The railway did not extend to Kigoma at that time, so all those boxes were carried on the backs of porters for the last part of the journey. In Kigoma, she was reconstructed and launched in 1915 under the nameGraf von Goetzen, named after the governor ofGerman East Africa. She was a warship intended to let the Germans dominate on Lake Tanganyika and she was very effective in that role, much more powerful than any other ship in the region. However, the land part of the war in Africa did not go well for the Germans. In 1916 they were forced to retreat from Kigoma; they scuttled the ship before they left to save her from capture by the Allies. She was soon r
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