SS Yongala facts for kids

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SS Yongala wreck
A shipping buoy marks the site of the SS Yongala

SS Yongala was a passenger ship that was launched in 1903. It sank off Cape Bowling Green on 23 March 1911 on its way to from Melbourne, Australia to Cairns she entered into a cyclone and sank without a trace south of Townsville. All passengers onboard drowned and the shipwreck was found in 1958 off the coast of Townsville.

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    SS Yongala

  • StateLibQld 1 256135 Hand coloured postcard of S. S. Yongala, ca. 1905

    Postcard of SS Yongala from c.1905

  • Captain William Knight

    Captain William Knight in 1911

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    SS Yongala at Fremantle in the 1900s