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Yavari (ship)
British-built Peruvian iron steamship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yavari is a British-built iron steamship commissioned (along with her sister ship Yapura) by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca by the Peruvian Navy.
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Name | SS Yavari; MV Yavari |
Namesake | Javary River, Peru |
Owner | The Yavari Project |
Port of registry | ![]() |
Route | across Lake Titicaca |
Ordered | 1860 |
Builder | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company |
Launched | 1870 |
Completed | 1862 |
Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 140 |
Length | 100 ft (30 m) when launched in 1870; lengthened to 47.5 m in 1914 |
Beam | 5.18 m |
Installed power | 2-cylinder steam engine until 1914; then Bolinder 4-cylinder 320 bhp (240 kW) hot bulb engine |
Propulsion | screw |
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She is named after the Javary River in the Loreto Region of Peru, bordering the Amazonas State (Brazil), and was the first steamship to cross the highest navigable waters in the world. Currently the ship functions as a museum and bed and breakfast with bunk accommodation and is the oldest iron lake steamer afloat.