General information:
-In 1913: steamboat Liemba was constructed in Papenburg by the Meyer-Werft
- ordered by emperor Wilhelm II.
- till May 1927 it had the name “Graf Götzen” (after Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen)
- for the Tanganjikasea in the colony German-East Africa
- construction time: 10 months
- 160.000 rivets were needed to hold the ship together
- for transportation it was packed in 5.000 wooden boxes
The trip from Papenburg to the Tanganjikasea
Firstly, the boxes were brought to Hamburg by train, then with a steamship to Daressalam, the capital of the colony. From Daressalam, the boxes were transported by the new opened railway to the Tanganjikasea in Kigoma
There, about 270 people (250 natives, 20 Indians) assembled the ship under the direction of three ship constructors of the Meyer Werft.
mmfreinhard Said:
on April 15, 2008 at 7:04 am
Well-chosen facts, good example of collecting information from the web instead of the copy&paste technique. I still wonder, though, whether the railway was already finished at that time. As far as I know, the boxes had to be carried quite a distance to Lake Tanganjika. Perhaps we should continue our search today and make use of some maps, too
dt