Orizaba 1905
Marker: recorded wreck position (Steam era).
Key facts
| Name | Orizaba | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1905 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Steam era | derived from year |
| Ship type | steamship | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Grounding or wreck on rocks | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | Australia | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Operator | Pacific Steam Navigation Company | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Sea / ocean | Geographe Bay | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Australia | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 33 km from land |
| Position | -32.2822, 115.6298 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
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.
All 160 people on board were evacuated safely. It is one of the largest ships to be wrecked in Australian waters.
In 2014 the wreck was still in use as a dive site.
Location
- Recorded position: -32.2822, 115.6298 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Geographe Bay
- Nearest coast: Australia
Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article RMS Orizaba (revision 1335789618), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby wrecks
- SS Kwinana 1922 · 12 km
- SS Wyola 25 km
- Rockingham 1830 · 30 km
- Lady Elizabeth 30 km
- City of York 35 km
- Centaur 1874 · 47 km
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