SS Orizaba (or "ES Orizaba", with "ES" standing for "Electroschiff" German: electric ship) was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) cargo ship that was built in Hamburg 1939[1] and wrecked off northern Norway in 1940.

[1][3][4] Each ship had two oil-fired high pressure boilers that fed a single AEG turbo generator.

[1][3][4] This produced current for an AEG electric propulsion motor that drove a single propeller shaft.

[2] On 21 February the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Manchester and two destroyers captured Wahehe southeast of Iceland as a prize ship.

On 28 February the submarine HMS Triton intercepted her off Kristiansand in southern Norway, but the cargo ship escaped under cover of darkness and on 1 March made port at Hamburg.

[12] Accordingly, in 2008 Norway's National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) on behalf of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority tested cusk, blue mussel and whelk in the vicinity of the wreck for levels of heavy metals.