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.[1] All passengers onboard drowned and the shipwreck was found in 1958 off the coast of Townsville.
SS Yongala Media
Black and white photo of SS Yongala taken before 1911.
Captain William Knight in 1911
Black and white photo of SS Yongala taken at Fremantle, Western Australia in 1900s.
HMAS Lachlan.
Fish next to Yongala's wreck: a zebra shark, Stegostoma tigrinum, attended by a live sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates, and three juvenile golden trevally Gnathanodon speciosus.
Yongala's ship's bell in the Maritime Museum of Townsville
Related pages
- Death of Tina Watson[2] - A drowning in 2003 at the shipwreck that became world news.
References
- ↑ http://www.townsvillemaritimemuseum.org.au/the_yongala/ss_yongala.php
- ↑ Andy Toulson (5 November 2008). "Watsons grave". Bulletin. Retrieved 2010-01-31.