"DOCTOR LIVINGSTON I PRESUME. ?" UJIJI / KIGOMA

DAY 31    KIGOMA

At 5am the wailing and whining began over the cheap speakers of several mosques in the area and went on for an hour, so was an early start to Sunday. Went to the docks to see the MV Liemba which use to travel up and down the lake transporting people and goods, but has been out of action for years and I think years to come. 

Graf von Goetzen 

Was built in 1913 in Germany, and was one of three vessels the German Empire used to control Lake Tanganyika during the early part of the First World War. Her captain had her scuttled on 26 July 1916 in Katabe Bay during the German retreat from Kigoma. In 1924, a British Royal Navy salvage team raised her and in 1927 she returned to service as Liemba. Liemba is the last vessel of the German Imperial Navy still actively sailing anywhere in the world.

Liemba is believed to be the inspiration for the German gunboat Luisa in C. S. Forester's 1935 novel The African Queen, and John Huston's subsequent film version.^[2] The ship featured in the 1992 BBC Television travel series Pole to Pole. Indican Pictures^[4] and Breadbox Productions^[5] released a documentary on the ship in 2010, Liemba.^[6]

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Then went to Ujiji where Stanley uttered those famous words, was a joke of a museum and a waste of time I thought,  anyhow got to see it, Livingston was a remarkable person, he even married a South African.