East African Railways and Harbours Motor Vessels
RMS Victoria was built in in 1959 by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun and reassembled for the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) ship at Kisumu in 1961. When the ship was commissioned Elizabeth II granted her the "Royal Mail Ship" designation: the only EAR&H ship to receive this distinction. However, since Kenya's independence from the UK she has operated as MV Victoria.
The train ferries MV Umoja and MV Uhuru are sister ships built by Yarrow in 1965. Kenya operated Uhuru, but she has been suspended from service since 2007.
In 1977 EARH was dissolved and its assets divided between Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Uhuru was transferred to the new Kenya Railways Corporation and Umoja and Victoria to the new Tanzania Railways Corporation.
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