Dr Livingstone il lancio di vapore, il Ma-Robert, chiamato così in onore della moglie Maria e il figlio di Robert, seconda Zambesi spedizione di 1858-1864
4578 x 2193 px | 38,8 x 18,6 cm | 15,3 x 7,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1887
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Illustration from Pictorial chronicles of the mighty deep circa 1887. Info from wiki Machine translated from original French: The Ma-Robert is the first boat built in steel 1 , by the British shipyard Cammell Laird . Boat christened Ma-Robert (meaning "Robert's mom" in African) in honor of David Livingstone's wife , Mary and his son, Robert, for the Zambezi expedition by physician and missionary David Livingstone. Scheduled to be transported in three parts and mounted in the Zambezi delta, it is brought on March 10 , 1858by HMS Pearl , reassembled in May 1858, and operational in January 1859. It is nicknamed Asthmatic 2 because of its slowness, the low power of its machinery, and 4 hours of heating 3 . In addition, its draft is much too important for a river service 4 . On December 21, 1861, the Ma-Robert ran aground on the Kongoni River and sank 4 and a new steamer, the HMS Pioneer , replaced him for the rest of the expedition.
