SS Liemba bow on.
SS Liemba before conversion to oil power . Photo: Steve Kilbey  
Polungu Head at Sunset courtesy Mike Franklin
The New Commercial Wharf and the Oil Tank Farm. Photo Mike Franklin 1966.
The Fishing Fleet in 1965. Photo Mike Franklin.
View over  the southern end of Lake Tanganyika from  lip of the Mpona Falls on the Izi River. Photo Steve Kilbey. Kumbula Island centre with "Crocidile" Island visible behind
SS Liemba before conversion to oil power . Photo: Steve Kilbey
Dames des Isles at Mpulungu. This large launch some how made her way from the Channels Isles to Lake Tanganyika where she was used by the District commissioner and government officials.
The Liemba approaching the wharf. Note the smoke indicting that this phtos was taken before she was converted to diesel fuel
SS Liemba at Mpulungu Harbour, Lake Tanganyika.
Busy Port Scene at Mpulungu Harbour Courtesy Amanda Parkyn
Kasakulawe Bay from the Fisheries wharf when Chila Yacht club held a regatta on Lake Tanganyika.
The same view some 50 years later. (Thanks to aroundguides.com)  
The Laurent Giles designed cutter Sonata at her moorings at the Fishery’s  Jetty, Mpulungu. Note the Evening Star at her masthead. Sonata visited Kasanga in Tanzania and made trips to Kasaba Bay battling the Kabata anabatic wind with the help
Cheery times on Triton. Photo Mike Franklin 1966.
Water spout of Lake Tanganyika
Mpulungu Harbour some sixty years ago.
Mpulungu in 1939. Note the very high water. Also the complete "close shave" of the vegetation  on the water margins.
Commander G. Wooler on the bridge of the "Liemba"
Liemba Boatswain  Hamisi Kalubi and Pilot Masudi Zaidi in the 1950s.
Albertville now Kalemie in the 1920s. It was the major Belgian town on the Western shore of Lake Tanganyika.
The Belgian steamer Baron Dhanis. This vessel used to visit Mpulungu in the 1950s when the SS Liemba was being refitted.    
Moses a very well known and highly respected  Mpulungu boatman of the 1950s. Does anyone know his full name?
Moses at the helm of the Gamwell sisters Nakatali sporting his captain's cap.
A Quiet moment at Mpulungu  between Liemba visits in the 1950s. The little white boat was the Nakatali   built by Tom Arnold for the Gamwell sisters. Later owned by Colin Carlin.
Dhow rigged vessel leaves Mpulungu Port in the mid 1950s. This is the image that must have raided alarm and fear in lakeside villages in the days of the slaver raiders.
Sit Alan Cobham's Short all metal Singapore type Flying Boat at rest in Mpulungu in 1929. From Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat by  Sir Alan Cobham 1930.
The German vessel the Herman von Weissman that shelled Katuat Bay and holed the Good News . She was sunk by Commander Spicer Simpson's flotilla.
Visitors to the Liemba in 1961. Photo courtesy Tamara Bulmer.
Looking forward to the curry lunch. The Liemba at Mpulungu in 1961. Photo Courtesy Tamara Bulmer.
The old deck configuration of the Liemba. Photo courtesy Tamara Bulmar.
The Approach to Kasaba Bay from the Sumbu side
The Liemba today busier than ever. She makes a fortnightly run South from Kigoma stopping at numerous small ports and even serving some of the new game camps en route.
View of Lake Tanganyika from the Laskie's house - later the Lake View Hotel and then the Outward Bound Lake School.
The Trimaran at the Fisheries Harbour, Mpulungu in about 1960. This vessel was built by Cliff Kellett in abercorn and operated by Peter Parton to take Tourist from and from Kasaba Bay Camp Camp.  
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