For other ships with the same name, see SS Orizaba.
History
Name
Orizaba
Owner
Pacific Steam Navigation Company[1]
Operator
Orient Steam Navigation Company[2]
Builder
Barrow Ship Building Co, Barrow-in-Furness
Yard number
138
Launched
6 May[1] 1886
Fate
Wrecked, 1905
General characteristics
Type
Royal Mail Ship
Tonnage
6,298[2]
Length
148 metres (486 ft)[2]
Draft
7.3 metres (24 ft)
RMS Orizaba was a Royal Mail Ship wrecked off Rockingham, Western Australia on 16 February 1905. On her approach to Fremantle, a smog of bushfire smoke was obscuring the coast and the captain lost his bearings. The ship went aground in 6.1 metres (20 ft) of water on Five Fathom Bank, west of Garden Island.[3]
All 160 people on board were evacuated safely. It is one of the largest ships ever to be wrecked in Australian waters.[2]
In 2014 the wreck was still in use as a dive site.[4]
The ship was celebrated in music by Australian composer Auguste Wiegand, in his gavotte of the same name.[5]
The wreck, c. 1910
Fremantle Port information plaque
^ ab"Orizaba". Shipping And Shipbuilding. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^ abcd"SS Orizaba 1905". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
^"Marine Disaster". The West Australian. Perth, WA. 17 February 1905. p. 7. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Trove.
^"RMS Orizaba plaque". Fremantle Port Authority. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
^Wiegand, Auguste (1898), Orizaba gavotte, Rene Desjardins Conservatoire of Music, retrieved 28 September 2019
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The wreck, c. 1910
Fremantle Port information plaque
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