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| Ship caption = SS ''Nyanza'' and [[MV Reli]] in [[Kisumu]]
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| Ship name = '''SS ''Nyanza'''''
| Ship namesake = [[Nyanza Province]], southwest [[Kenya]]
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| Ship operator = *[[Uganda Railway]] 1907–29; [[Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours]] 1929–48; [[East African Railways and Harbours Corporation]] after 1948;
*Delship Ltd. ''ca.'' 2002<ref name=Schoute>{{cite web |url=http://www.schoute.org/mvnyanza.htm |title=M.V. Nyanza |last=Schoute |first=Erik |date=2002-04-04 |work=Anja en Erik's Home Page |publisher=Anja & Erik Schoute |access-date=22 May 2011}}</ref>
| Ship registry = {{flagicon|British East Africa}} {{flagicon|Kenya}} [[Kisumu]]
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| Ship builder = [[Bow, McLachlan and Company|Bow, McLachlan & Co]],<ref name=Clyde>{{cite web |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust|title=Nyanza |work=[[Clyde-built Ship Database]] |url= http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=2711 |access-date=21 November 2016}}</ref> [[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]], Scotland
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| Ship status = Laid up as of 2007 in [[Kisumu]]
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| Ship type = Passenger-cargo ship<ref name=Clyde/>
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| Ship power = Two 450 hp [[Compound engine#Multiple expansion engines|triple expansion engines]] supplied by [[Water-tube boiler#Babcock & Wilcox boiler|Babcock & Wilcox boilers]]<ref name=Schoute/>
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'''SS ''Nyanza''''' is a disused passenger-cargo steamer on [[Lake Victoria]] in [[East Africa]]. She is one of seven [[Clyde-built ships]] called ''Nyanza'' that were launched between 1867 and 1956.<ref name=Clyde/>

==History==
[[File:Our holiday in Africa (1912) (14770266341).jpg|left|thumb|SS ''Nyanza'' in 1912]]
[[Bow, McLachlan and Company]] of [[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]] in [[Renfrewshire]], [[Scotland]] built SS ''Nyanza'' in 1907 for the [[Uganda Railway]].<ref name=Clyde/> She was a "knock-down" vessel; that is, she was constructed in the normal fashion at the shipyard in Paisley, then, after all her parts had been marked with identifying numbers, disassembled and transported by sea in kit form to [[Kenya]] for reassembly and fit-out.

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]].<ref name=Schoute/> As of 2019, ''Nyanza'' was still laid up at [[Kisumu]], along with fleetmate {{SS|Usoga}}.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.tuko.co.ke/309740-uhuru-quietly-returns-lakeside-city-inspects-ksh-3-billion-renovation-works-kisumu-port.html |title=Uhuru quietly returns to lakeside city, inspects KSh 3 billion renovation works at Kisumu port |date=7 July 2019 |access-date=19 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707082707if_/https://www.tuko.co.ke/309740-uhuru-quietly-returns-lakeside-city-inspects-ksh-3-billion-renovation-works-kisumu-port.html#309740 |archive-date=7 July 2019}}</ref>

==SS ''Nomadic''==
''Nyanza''{{'}}s boilers and [[Compound engine#Multiple expansion engines|triple expansion engines]] are of a similar size to those originally installed in the [[White Star Line]] ship {{SS|Nomadic|1911|6}}, which was built in 1911 as a [[Ship's tender|tender]] to {{RMS|Olympic}} and {{RMS|Titanic}}.<ref name=NPS>{{cite web |url=http://www.nomadicpreservationsociety.co.uk/news.asp?p=62 |title=7 September 2008 |publisher=Nomadic Preservation Society |access-date=15 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505055241/http://www.nomadicpreservationsociety.co.uk/news.asp?p=62 |archive-date=5 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 2008 the Nomadic Preservation Society launched an unsuccessful appeal for [[Pound sterling|£]]200,000 to buy ''Nyanza''{{'}}s engines and boilers, ship them to the United Kingdom and install them in ''Nomadic''.<ref name=NPS/> As of 2019, the engines and boilers are still intact and inside ''Nyanza''.<ref name="auto"/>

==See also==
* [[Lake Victoria ferries]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |url= http://www.mccrow.org.uk/eastafrica/eastafricanrailways/DeathOfFleet.htm |last=McCrow |first=Malcolm |title=Death of a Fleet at Kisumu |work=Memories of East Africa |year=2007}} — photos of various former EAR&H ships lying derelict at [[Kisumu]], including SS ''Nyanza'' and {{SS|Usoga}}

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