This post is about the passenger ship Liemba. Until may the 16th in 1927 it was named Graf Goetzen because of Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen. The ship was build in the Meyer-Werft in Papenburg for the inhabitants of the colonie in the east of Africa. To transport the ship, it was knocked down in seperate parts and packed in 5000 wooden boxes. Through the Mediterranian Sea an the Suez Canal the ship arrived at the seaport Daressalam and was transported in the heartland. Because there the railway did not reach the Tanganjikasee hundreds of natives had to carry the boxes to the see. This trip took a couple of weeks. When the ship arrived it was put together again. Today the ship is called Liemba and it is the only ship that sailes on the Tanganjikasee. 600 people can be transported.
