MV Victoria (1959)
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MV Victoria is a Lake Victoria ferry operated by the Marine Services Company Limited of Tanzania.
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Kenya Colony | |
Name | RMS Victoria |
Port of registry | Kisumu |
Route | around Lake Victoria |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited[1] |
Yard number | 2165[1] |
Launched |
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Completed | June 1961[1] |
Commissioned | 22 July 1961[1] |
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Kenya | |
Name | Victoria |
Port of registry | Kisumu |
Fate | Transferred to Tanzania |
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Tanzania | |
Name | Victoria |
Operator | Marine Services Company Limited |
Port of registry | Mwanza |
Acquired | 1977 |
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ferry |
Tonnage | 1,353 GRT[1] |
Length | 261.3 ft (79.6 m)[1] |
Beam | 40.0 ft (12.2 m)[1] |
Height | 13.0 ft (4.0 m)[1] |
Draught | 8.3 ft (2.5 m)[1] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 13.5 kn (25 km/h)[1] |
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Until Kenyan independence from the United Kingdom in 1963 she was the Royal Mail Ship RMS Victoria.[3] She then operated under the Kenyan flag until 1977, when she was transferred to Tanzania.