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SS ''Coya'' is a 19th-century iron-hulled steamship on Lake Titicaca. After a long history carrying freight and passengers she is currently a floating restaurant. ==History== Peru already had two steamships on Lake Titicaca; ''Yavari'' and ''Yapura''. Increasing traffic had outstripped their cargo and passenger capacities so the Peruvian Corporation, a UK-owned company that had taken over Peru's railways and lake shipping in 1890, ordered a much larger ship to supplement them.〔 ''Coya'', at 546 tons and long, was the largest steamship on Lake Titicaca when she was launched in 1893. William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton on the River Clyde, Scotland built ''Coya'' in 1892 in "knock down" form; that is, they assembled her with bolts and nuts at the shipyard, dismantled her into thousands of parts small enough to transport, shipped the parts to Lake Titicaca where she was reassembled with rivets and launched in 1893.〔 Lake traffic continued to grow, so the Corporation added the much larger (1,809 tons) in 1905 and (2,200 tons) in 1930.〔 However, ''Coya'' continued in service on the lake. In 1975 the Peruvian Corporation was nationalised and ''Coyas ownership passed to the state railway company ENAFER.〔 In 1984 ''Coya'' was grounded by flooding of the lake that then receded and left her beached on dry land.〔 In 2001 she was rescued, restored and refloated as a restaurant.〔 ''Coya'' may be the oldest surviving Denny-built steamship in the World. 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「SS Coya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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