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BAP ''Puno'' is a Peruvian Navy hospital ship on Lake Titicaca. Until 1976 she was called ''Yapura''. ==History== The Peruvian government ordered ''Yapura'' and her sister ship ''Yavari'' in 1861. In 1862 Thames Ironworks on the River Thames built the iron-hulled ''Yavari'' and ''Yapura'' under contract to the James Watt Foundry of Birmingham.〔 The ships were designed as combined cargo, passenger and gunboats for the Peruvian Navy.〔 ''Puno'' has her original two-cylinder steam engine, which is fuelled with dried llama dung.〔 The ships were built in "knock down" form; that is, they were assembled with bolts and nuts at the shipyard, dismantled into thousands of parts small enough to transport, and shipped to their final destination to be assembled with rivets and launched on the lake. The kits for the two ships consisted of a total 2,766 pieces between them.〔 Each piece was no more than what a mule could carry, because the railway from the Pacific Ocean port of Arica went only , as far as Tacna.〔 From there pack mules had to carry them the remaining to Puno on the lake.〔 The original British contractor got the parts to Tacna but failed to complete the section of the journey with mules.〔 This was not resumed until 1868 and ''Yapura'' was not launched until 1873.〔 The War of the Pacific of 1879–83 impoverished the Peruvian government, so in 1890 UK investors established the Peruvian Corporation which took over operation of Peru's railways and lake ships.〔 In 1975 Peru nationalised the corporation and ''Yavari'' and ''Yapura'' passed to the state railway company ENAFER.〔 In 1976 they were transferred back the Peruvian Navy, who converted ''Yapura'' into a hospital ship〔 and renamed her BAP ''Puno''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BAP Puno (ABH-306)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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