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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.
[[Heritage Oil]] and [[Tullow Oil]] have announced major oil finds in the Lake Albert basin, with estimates that the multi-billion barrel field will prove to be the largest onshore field found in sub-saharan Africa for more than twenty years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oil & Gas {{!}} National Environment Management Authority|url=https://www.nema.go.ug/eias/oil-gas|website=www.nema.go.ug|access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>
In March 2014, a boat carrying Congolese refugees [[2014 Lake Albert boat disaster|capsized in Lake Albert]], killing more than 250 people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Uganda Lake Albert boat disaster 'killed 251 refugees'|date=March 27, 2014 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26774338|accessdate=April 16, 2014}}</ref>
On 26 December 2016, a boat carrying 45 members and fans of a local village football team capsized in Lake Albert killing at least 30 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-least-30-drown-in-uganda-christmas-drama-on-lake-albert/ar-BBxAdou?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280 |title=At least 30 drown in Uganda Christmas drama on Lake Albert |website=MSN |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227130141/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-least-30-drown-in-uganda-christmas-drama-on-lake-albert/ar-BBxAdou?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280 |archive-date=2016-12-27}}</ref>
The Kibiro settlement on Lake Albert has cultural and archeological significance.<ref name="kibirofinds">{{cite web |title=The cultural and chronological context of Kibiro, Uganda |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02968365}}</ref>
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