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==History==
Lake Albert was previously known as “Mwitanzige” (locusts killer) by the [[Nyoro people|Banyoro]] and [[Toro people|Batooro]], as well as other peoples who have been populated the region for centuries before the colonial age. This was because of the ancient belief that locusts (locally called "enzige") perished in the lake as they tried to cross it. In 1864, the explorers [[Samuel Baker]] and [[Florence Baker|Flóra von Sass]] found the lake<ref>{{cite web |author=Dorothy Middleton |title=Baker [''née'' von Sass], Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916) |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/42346 |year=2004 |access-date=2015-09-11}}</ref> and renamed it after the recently deceased [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]], consort of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]. In the 20th century, [[List of heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|Zairian President]] [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] temporarily named the lake after himself.
 
European colonialists operated shipping on the lake. The British planned shipping on Lake Albert as part of a network of railway, river steamer and lake steamer services linking British interests in Egypt, east Africa and southern Africa. The [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]] shipyard at [[Woolston, Hampshire]] built the cargo and passenger ship {{SS|Robert Coryndon}} for this purpose in 1930.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biog.com/story.php?story_id=776&biog_id=856 |title=Jitze Couperus |author=Jitze Couperus |date=2009-04-06 |work=Biog: The World Biography Project |publisher= |accessdate=2011-05-18 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20110910154718/http://www.biog.com/story.php?story_id=776&biog_id=856 |archive-date=2011-09-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was named after the [[British Army]] officer Robert Thorne Coryndon, who was governor of Uganda 1918-22. [[Winston Churchill]] described the ship as ''"the best library afloat"'' and [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her ''"magnificence on water"''.<ref name=Insomniac/> She either was scuttled in 1962<ref name=darbykj>{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/7479977@N03/ |title=darbykj's photostream |author= |date=2007-12-09 |work=[[Flickr]] |via=[[Yahoo!]] |accessdate=2011-05-18}}</ref> or sank in 1964.<ref name=Insomniac/> She remains unsalvaged and partly submerged in the lake <ref name=Insomniac/><ref name=darbykj/> at Butyaba landing site. These can still be seen to date.