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When steamer SS Idaho stranded off Aberdeen in January 1929, her valuable cargo was eyed with interest by Fittie residents.

Kenya has watched enviably as other African countries build their own vessels, hoping that a day will come when it will achieve such a feat.

During May 1847, some 40 ships, carrying 12,500 feeble, ill and dying immigrants arrived. They were obliged to anchor in the river without medical attention or nourishment while the ill-equipped doctors, nurses and carers did their best to work through the restricted numbers allowed to land. Inevitably there were many deaths on board and many more among those who were later hospitalised when they were eventually allowed to go ashore to the quarantine station. The quarantine facilities were pitifully inadequate to handle the thousands of sick who needed attention. The small hospitals lacked pr...