Talk:SS Norwich City

Wreck location
The info box gives the wreck location as -4.69167°N, -174.6°W (scale expanded to include Nikumaroro). That location is about 6 km west of the island and far from any apparent reef.

This picture shows the wreck is close to Nikumaroro.

Reports say the wreck is at the NW corner of the island. The Master's reports suggests a couple hundred yards from the beach.

This map indicates west of Nutiran (northern end). Google images do not show the wreck, but the map suggests somewhere around -4.66091°N, -174.54535°W.

Glrx (talk) 01:06, 15 December 2010 (UTC)


 * There's not much left of the wreck to see these days, maybe an engine and bits of the keel. I've fixed the coordinates (you were very close), it ran aground at the edge of the reef and was hung up there for decades. The debris field is still somewhat visible in the satellite image, as rust on the reef. Gwen Gale (talk) 10:35, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Castaway and Norwich City
Australian aircraft engineer David Billings (see his comments at http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2010/06/earhart-expedition-reports-vivid-dreams-and-amelia-moments-during-search/) has criticized TIGHAR for not mentioning that the Norwich City ran aground at Nikumaroro and for not considering the possibility that the remains of the castaway found by Gallagher may belong to one of the 11 sailors who perished aboard the Norwich City. In fact, TIGHAR has knowledge of the Norwich City wreck (http://tighar.org/wiki/SS_Norwich_City), and since forensic analysis of the castaway bones found by Gallagher suggests that they may have come from a woman of European descent, there is no reason to think they belonged to one of the dead sailors of the Norwich City who didn't make it to shore because there were no women aboard the Norwich City and the Seven Site is too far from the site of the Norwich City wreck.

In another twist to the role that the Norwich City may have played in Amelia Earhart's disappearance, analysis of a photo taken by Eric Bevington in October 1937 shows an anomalous object that may resemble the landing gear of Earhart's Electra (http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/57_Bevingtonphoto/57_HidinginSight.htm). The object is situated north of the Norwich City wreck and may lend support anecdotal accounts of aircraft wreckage on the northwesternmost tip of Nikumaroro Island. 68.4.28.33 (talk) 18:15, 16 December 2012 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian