Editing Lake Malawi (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Nkhata Bay, Malawi.jpg|thumb|A jetty juts into the lake at [[Nkhata Bay]]]]

{{MV|Chauncy Maples}} began service on the lake in 1901 as the SS ''Chauncy Maples'': a floating clinic and church for the [[Universities' Mission to Central Africa]]. She later served as a ferry and is currently being renovated into a mobile clinic at [[Monkey Bay]]. The renovation was expected to be complete during the first half of 2014, but was halted in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chauncymaples.org/index.html|title=Chauncy Maples : Lake Malawi's Clinic|website=Chauncymaples.org|access-date=12 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204513/https://chauncymaples.org/index.html|archive-date=12 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{MV|Mpasa}} entered service in 1935.<ref name=Shipstamps>{{cite web |url=http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10733 |title=Mtendere |last=Sefton |first=John |date=2010-11-09 |work=Community Forum |publisher=ShipStamps.co.uk }}</ref> The ferry {{MV|Ilala}} entered service in 1951. In recent years she has often been out of service, but when operational she runs between Monkey Bay at the southern end of the lake to [[Karonga]] on the northern end, and occasionally to the [[Iringa Region]] of Tanzania. The ferry {{MV|Mtendere}} entered service in 1980.<ref name=Shipstamps/> By 1982 she was carrying 100,000 passengers each year.,<ref name=Shipstamps/> but as of 2014 she was out of service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faceofmalawi.com/2014/03/malawi-shipping-company-set-to-launch-new-passenger-vessel-on-lake-malawi/|title=Malawi Shipping Company set to launch new passenger vessel on Lake Malawi – Face Of Malawi|first=Face of|last=Malawi|date=31 March 2014 }}</ref> She normally serves the southern part of the lake but if ''Ilala'' was out of service she operated the route to Karonga. The Tanzanian ferry {{MV|Songea}} was built in 1988.<ref name=MSC>{{cite web |url=http://mscltz.com/preview_019.htm |title=MV. Songea |work=Vessels |publisher=Marine Services Company Limited |access-date=26 June 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Her operator was the [[Tanzania Railway Corporation]] Marine Division until 1997, when it became the [[Marine Services Company Limited]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mscltz.com/ |title=Home |work=Vessels |publisher=Marine Services Company Limited |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910031156/http://www.mscltz.com/ |archive-date=10 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Songea'' plies weekly between Liuli and [[Nkhata Bay]] via Itungi and [[Mbamba Bay]].<ref name=MSC/> The worst Lake disaster was the sinking of the {{MV|Vipya}} in 1946, which resulted in 145 deaths. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034s5kt|title = BBC World Service - African Perspective, MV Vipya Lake Malawi Disaster}}</ref>