Placilla was a four-masted barque which was built for F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany in 1892.

In 1892, Placilla made the voyage from Lizard Point to Valparaiso, Chile in 58 days.

On 6 January 1905, she departed Hamburg bound for Santa Rosalía, Mexico with a cargo of coke.

On 18 January 1905, she ran aground on the misty Haisborough Sands after a storm in the North Sea, off the coast of Norfolk and was wrecked.

The captains of Pisagua were:-[2] Placilla was assigned the Code Letters RJLM.