Naval Action on Lake Tanganyika


Traction Engine


This photograph shows a traction engine dragging one of the two boats through Central and Southern Africa. The weight of the traction engines caused as many engineering problems as the boats did in many ways.

Image courtesy of Imperial War Museum


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