[ship] Yavari is a ship commissioned (along with her sister ship Yapura) by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca. She is named after the Javary River in the Loreto Region of Peru, bordering the Amazonas State (Brazil). ==History== In 1862 Thames Ironworks on the River Thames built the iron-hulled Yavari and Yapura under ...