orizaba

I am fairly sure that is the SS Orient (yet again - that's no.10). More info - compare with the side view painting - www.laird-bogstown.com/orient 1.php PhMC SS Orient photos - www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=24785917@N03&q=ss+o...

Second thoughts (some of those liners were very similar) - I now think this is the Orient Line's SS 'ORIZABA' on Friday 27 January 1888. moored in Farm Cove for the Centennial Regatta, and photographed from Mrs Macquarie's Chair. Hence all the flags, boats, colour and movement. Described in the Sydney Morning Herald the following day - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13680429 . The Orizaba was wrecked off Western Australia in 1905, and is now a famous dive site - www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/shipwreck... . See www.flickr.com/photos/49243167@N03/4537807228/ and www.flickr.com/photos/49243167@N03/4535158238/ Comparison photos - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=447782 www.tallis.on.net/images/p13.jpg And the "Orizaba Gavotte" sheet music (!!) - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-an6304260-s1-e

Prompted by this Henry King photo - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362663293/

I agree beachcomberaustralia - it is 'the Orizaba trimmed up and decorated for the occassion'. Not only have you identified the vessel, but named the very day. Well done.

beachcomberaustralia: Lookin' like S.S. Orizaba to me. Matches the other known photograph of Orizaba. Position, dressing of the ship and huge number of people aboard match the newspaper description of S.S. Orizaba for the Centennial Regatta. Yachts under canvas are also mentioned in the newspaper description of the day. A wood engraving of the Sydney Centennial Exhibition held by the State Library of Victoria shows a tableau of scenes. At the bottom is "The Regatta" A ship substantially the same as this one and dressed identically to the one in the photograph above is shown, although there are some very minor differences between the foredeck of the wood engraved ship and the one photographed here. This lends further weight to this photograph being of the Centennial Regatta. Here is the wood engraving: www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/gid/slv-pic-aab13938/1/mp006972 I suppose there are books and pamphlets about Sydney's Centennial Celebrations which will confirm that this is a photograph of S.S. Orizaba at that event.

"NEWSPAPER WRITERS SAIL.; Transport Orizaba Starts with Big Delegation for Peace Conference. The American transport Orizaba, commanded by Captain Freeman, U.S.N., sailed from Pier 5, Hoboken, at 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Brest with ninety-eight newspaper correspondents, photographers, and moving picture operators from all parts of the United States, and two army officers." New York Times, Dec. 2, 1918. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DEFD81239E13AB... Pier 5, Hoboken, NJ.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Orizaba_(ID-1536)

Thanks Art Siegel and B-59. I found this photo published in a Dec. 4, 1918 article in the Hartford Courant.

"1887" - Crikey, that's an oldie and a goodie! I wonder if it was a slip-of-the-pen for 1888? Very easy to do at the start of the year. There are multiple articles about the ORIZABA as Flagship for the Centennial Regatta in 1888 (on 27 January), but none for 1887. Hmmm ...

beachcomber australia Indeed, I researched it to make sure because our records had 1887 as well. But IBERIA was flagship that year, so yes, your suggestion that it was mislabelled is more likely. And yes, I think we've all made that mistake eh? :P But thanks for pointing out the inscription, I hadn't noticed it!

Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Just found another faint inscription including CENTENNIAL, see note bottom left.

The ferry is Wallaby

beachcomber australia MV Baragoola Thanks you two! We have entered these details into our database records :)