Our 10th year Wedding Anniversary

A ten year wedding anniversary is a memorable occasion and ours turned out to be a holiday that I will never forget! It started with a trip on the old German boat, the Liemba, up Lake Tanganyika from Kipili to Lagosa.

The Liemba, or the Graf von Goetzen as she was originally named, is a 1,300-ton steamship. This historic ship was brought to Kigoma on the north of Lake Tanganyika, by the Germans during the First World War. She was transported in pieces by train from Dar es Salaam and assembled in Kigoma in 1914. Before her maiden voyage the Graf von Coetzen was bombed by a Belgian aircraft and when their defeat became apparent, the Germans decided to sink the ship in Lake Tanganyika to prevent it from falling into British hands. There she remained until 1924, when the British salvaged her. The ship was then renamed the Liemba, which according to Livingstone, was the local name for Lake Tanganyika. To this day she continues to carry passengers and cargo up and down Lake Tanganyika, from Kigoma in the north to Mpulungu on the south of the Lake in Zambia.