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.

Presuming that is the ORIZABA also alongside the Orient Wharf at east Circular Quay. The ORIZABA and the ORIENT are difficult to tell apart at first glance, and I have made mistakes identifying them on PhM photos, partly because they changed appearance over the years - length of funnels, number of cross-spars, etc. At this time (c.1885) the ORIENT had cross-spars on the second mast forward - the ORIZABA didn't. And the ORIENT had a white streak half way down the sides, a wall with cabin portholes. Confusing, but when you look at them side by side in photos as good as these, it is more obvious - ORIENT

The 'Orizaba' is an old Flickr favourite. Not sure of the relevance here yet ...