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Commander L G Dennis, Marine Superintendent (Lakes) (East African Railways and Harbours) in his book "The Lake Steamers of East Africa" 1996 Runnymede,P152-3 writes that it was a railway Marine petrol driven motor boat of 14hp, built in 1930s, 28 ft in length. It was fitted with a mock-up steam boiler and funnel made in the (Butiaba) Marine workshops and that oily rags were burnt to create smoke.
In an interview Daily Press, Norfolk, Va June 06 1997, James Hendricks Snr was reported as explaining that "It really is a vintage African boat,built in 1912 for a British railway company that used it on a lake in Uganda. She originally had a diesel engine--".
Yes it was a motor boat,originally possibly petrol, later diesel, most likely built in the Marine workshops in Butiaba. It appears from a photo in Hepburn's book that a second very similar boat was sectioned into two to create fore and aft situations for close-ups. This sectioning was necessary to allow access for the very large technicolor cameras of the time.
So, it is pure invention to claim African Queen was a steamboat built by either Lytham Shipbuilders or by Abdela & Mitchell
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