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The Lake Victoria ferries are and were steam
Steam

In physical chemistry, and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. It is a pure, completely invisible gaseous phase . At standard temperature and pressure, pure steam occupies about 1,600 times the volume of an equal mass of liquid water....
- and diesel
Diesel

Diesel or diesel fuel in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillation of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid or gas to liquid diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted....
-powered ships used for freight and passenger transport between Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
, Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
 and Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
 on Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres in size, making it the continent's largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second widest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area ....
. The main port
Port

||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake....
s on the lake are Kisumu
Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu District....
, Mwanza
Mwanza

Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania and a southern port of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of Mwanza Region and of the ethnic region Basukuma [English: Sukumaland]....
, Bukoba
Bukoba

Bukoba is a town in northwest Tanzania on the western shore of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of the Kagera region. Population estimate: 100,000....
, Entebbe
Entebbe

Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90,500. It is located on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital city of Kampala....
, Port Bell
Port Bell

Port Bell is a small industrial centre near Kampala in Uganda which has a railroad link and a rail/road ferry wharf used for international traffic across Lake Victoria to Tanzania and Kenya....
 and Jinja
Jinja

Jinja may be:* Jinja, Uganda, a city in Uganda close to the source of the Nile River* Jinja District, the district in Uganda named after the above city...
.

Typical journey times between Port Bell
Port Bell

Port Bell is a small industrial centre near Kampala in Uganda which has a railroad link and a rail/road ferry wharf used for international traffic across Lake Victoria to Tanzania and Kenya....
, in Uganda and Kisumu
Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu District....
, in Kenya, are 13 hours and between Port Bell and Mwanza
Mwanza

Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania and a southern port of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of Mwanza Region and of the ethnic region Basukuma [English: Sukumaland]....
, in Tanzania, are 19 hours.

The original ferries serving the Uganda Railway
Uganda Railway

The Uganda Railway is a historical railway system linking the interiors of Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean at Mombasa in Kenya....
 in the early 1900s, were built in Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
, disassembled, transported in parts by sea to Mombasa
Mombasa

Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya, lying on the Indian Ocean. It has a major Seaport and an international airport. The city is the centre of the coastal tourism industry....
 and by rail to Kisumu and reassembled.






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The Lake Victoria ferries are and were steam
Steam

In physical chemistry, and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. It is a pure, completely invisible gaseous phase . At standard temperature and pressure, pure steam occupies about 1,600 times the volume of an equal mass of liquid water....
- and diesel
Diesel

Diesel or diesel fuel in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillation of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid or gas to liquid diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted....
-powered ships used for freight and passenger transport between Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
, Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
 and Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
 on Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres in size, making it the continent's largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second widest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area ....
. The main port
Port

||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake....
s on the lake are Kisumu
Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu District....
, Mwanza
Mwanza

Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania and a southern port of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of Mwanza Region and of the ethnic region Basukuma [English: Sukumaland]....
, Bukoba
Bukoba

Bukoba is a town in northwest Tanzania on the western shore of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of the Kagera region. Population estimate: 100,000....
, Entebbe
Entebbe

Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90,500. It is located on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital city of Kampala....
, Port Bell
Port Bell

Port Bell is a small industrial centre near Kampala in Uganda which has a railroad link and a rail/road ferry wharf used for international traffic across Lake Victoria to Tanzania and Kenya....
 and Jinja
Jinja

Jinja may be:* Jinja, Uganda, a city in Uganda close to the source of the Nile River* Jinja District, the district in Uganda named after the above city...
.

Typical journey times between Port Bell
Port Bell

Port Bell is a small industrial centre near Kampala in Uganda which has a railroad link and a rail/road ferry wharf used for international traffic across Lake Victoria to Tanzania and Kenya....
, in Uganda and Kisumu
Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu District....
, in Kenya, are 13 hours and between Port Bell and Mwanza
Mwanza

Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania and a southern port of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of Mwanza Region and of the ethnic region Basukuma [English: Sukumaland]....
, in Tanzania, are 19 hours.

The original ferries serving the Uganda Railway
Uganda Railway

The Uganda Railway is a historical railway system linking the interiors of Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean at Mombasa in Kenya....
 in the early 1900s, were built in Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
, disassembled, transported in parts by sea to Mombasa
Mombasa

Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya, lying on the Indian Ocean. It has a major Seaport and an international airport. The city is the centre of the coastal tourism industry....
 and by rail to Kisumu and reassembled. RMS Victoria was built at the Yarrow
Alfred Yarrow

Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1st Baronet started a shipbuilding dynasty from humble origins in east London. He was educated at University College School....
 shipyard in Glasgow
Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
.

The successor to Uganda Railway links Mombasa
Mombasa

Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya, lying on the Indian Ocean. It has a major Seaport and an international airport. The city is the centre of the coastal tourism industry....
 to the port of Kisumu on Lake Victoria. A Tanzanian railway links Mwanza and Dodoma
Dodoma

Dodoma , officially Dodoma Urban District, population 324,347 , is the national Capital of Tanzania, and also the capital of the Dodoma Region....
, the administrative capital of Tanzania (rail service from Dodoma to the port of Dar Es Salaam
Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam , formerly Mzizima, is the largest city in Tanzania. It is also the country's richest city and a regionally important economic centre....
 has been discontinued). This network allows countries of the African interior such as Uganda and Rwanda
Rwanda

The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
 to transport freight to and from world markets.

Other lakes in the region such as Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in central Africa . It is estimated to be the List of lakes by volume in the world by volume, and the List of lakes by depth, after Lake Baikal in Siberia....
, Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi , is the most southerly lake in the East African Rift valley system. The lake, third largest in Africa and List of lakes by area, is situated between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania....
 and Lake Albert have used ferries which were sometimes linked to railways in a similar way.

In May 1996, the Tanzanian ferry, MV Bukoba
MV Bukoba

MV Bukoba was a passenger Steamboat that sank in Lake Victoria, 30 kilometers from Mwanza, Tanzania on May 21 1996, killing nearly 1000 people. The boat transported passengers and cargo between Bukoba and Mwanza ports....
 sunk with the loss of 800 lives.

On April 28, 2006 the Tanzanian cargo and passenger ferry Mv Nyamageni capsized. It was carrying over forty passengers, with many feared dead .

At present Uganda has three freight ferries on Lake Victoria: MV Pamba, MV Kaawa
MV Kaawa

MV Kaawa is one of the three ferries run by Uganda Railways on Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria ferries have operated since the early 1900s. A Kenyan and a Tanzanian ferry also operate on the lake....
 and MV Kabalega. Tanzania
Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
 operated MV Uhuru (now suspended, see ) and Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
 operates MV Umoja
MV Umoja

The MV Umoja is a ferry that serves Lake Victoria in Africa. It is best known for having been featured in a book by Paul Theroux and for several recent accidents....
.

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  • train ferry
    Train ferry

    A train ferry is a ship designed to carry Rail transport vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with rail tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves....