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SS Yongala
The passenger ship SS ''Yongala'' sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. En route from Melbourne to Cairns she steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville. All 122 aboard were killed, and traces of the ship were not found until days later, when cargo and wreckage began to wash ashore at Cape Bowing Green and at Cleveland Bay. It was believed that the hull of the ship had been ripped open by a submerged rock.〔("The Yongala: The Worst Feared, Cargo Washing Ashore" ), Ohinemuri Gazette, 29 March 1911 p. 2〕 The wreck, which has become a tourist attraction and dive site, was not found until 1958.
==Design and construction==
SS ''Yongala'' was a steel passenger and freight steamer built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, England to special survey for the Adelaide Steamship Company, at a cost of £102,000.〔 She was launched on 29 April 1903, and was registered in Adelaide. The vessel was named after the small town of Yongala in South Australia, a word from the Nadjuri language which meant "good water".〔(SS ''Yongala'' ), (2002), Maritime Museum of Townsville, retrieved 9 March 2008.〕
The vessel was propelled by a large triple expansion steam engine built by Wallsend Shipway and Engineering Co., which drove a single propeller.〔 Official top speed was recorded as , although ''Yongala'' was recorded to have reached on multiple occasions.〔 Five single ended steel boilers working under natural draught supplied steam of pressure.〔 At 15 knots, ''Yongala''s engines burned approximately 67 tonnes of coal per day.〔 A direct acting steam windlass and capstan was fitted on the forecastle head.〔 Cargo handling was done with two steam cranes, along with seven winches with derricks and derrick-posts. Electric lighting was fitted throughout the ship with a duplicate generating plant.〔 She was also provided with refrigeration facilities for the carriage of frozen cargo.〔 A specially arranged steam and hand steering gear was fitted in a house at the after end of the fantail and controlled from the bridge.〔
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