Captain William Barton & pilots on SS LUGARD
(Photo supplied by his granddaughter, Caroline Glithero)
date of photograph unknown

A Trip to the Nile in 1952/53

The following photographs were taken on a trip to the Nile. Passengers travelled from Nairobi by train to Nakuru where there was an overnight stop. The following day, the train took them through Eldoret to Namasagali (Uganda) on Lake Kioga. There, we transferred to a lake ferry across Lake Kioga to Masindi Port. Then, we went by coach to Butiaba on Lake Albert. From Butiaba, we took the Robert Coryndon (a lake steamer) to Pakwatch at the lakehead. We then sailed up the Nile River on the Lugard II, a sternwheeler, calling in at Rhino Camp and Laropi, and finally Nimule on the Sudan border.  

SS LUGARD II

Elephant along the shore near Rhino Camp

Passengers on the Kioga lake ferry.

SS LUGARD II at Nimule

Train at Namasagali, Lake Kioga

Masindi Port, Lake Kioga

Passengers boarded barges (lighters)
which were pushed ahead of the LUGARD II

ROBERT CORYNDON,
on Lake Albert