Passenger steamship that was wrecked in Queensland, Australia
Yongala in port
History
Australia
Name
Yongala
Namesake
Yongala, South Australia
Owner
Adelaide Steamship Company
Port of registry
Port Adelaide
Builder
Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Low Walker
Cost
£102,000
Yard number
736
Launched
29 April 1903
Completed
October 1903
Identification
UK official number 118332
code letters VGFH
Fate
Lost with all hands, 23 March 1911
Notes
One of the largest, best-preserved shipwrecks in Queensland
General characteristics
Type
Passenger ship
Tonnage
3,664 GRT, 1,825 NRT
Length
350.0 ft (106.7 m)
Beam
45.2 ft (13.8 m)
Depth
27.2 ft (8.3 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
690 NHP
Propulsion
1 × screw
1 × triple expansion engine
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity
Passengers:
110 first class
130 second class
Cargo: 3,000 tons, including 10,000 cubic feet (280 m3) refrigerated
Crew
72
Notes
sister ship: Grantala
SS Yongala was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1903 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. She sank in a cyclone off the coast of Queensland in 1911, with the loss of all 122 passengers and crew aboard.
Her wreck off Cape Bowling Green was found in 1958. It is now a popular wreck diving site, protected by the Commonwealth Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018.
Yongala was the sister ship of Grantala, which in 1914 became Australia's only hospital ship in the First World War.
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Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 1 May 2023. "SSYongala". Maritime Museum of Townsville. Archived from the original on 7 February...
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his wife and his youngest daughter were drowned in the wreck of the SSYongala, south of Townsville. The Rooney firms were already losing their pre-eminence...
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resembles a wreck, which could be taken as a replica of the world famous the SSYongala (lying submerged south off the coast from Townsville). Great Barrier Reef...
sites like Foam (1893), Scottish Prince (1887), HMCS Mermaid (1829) and SSYongala (1911). Museum of Tropical Queensland houses artefacts recovered from...
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the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913. Olympic also held the title of the...
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chartered) include: SS Porpoise, Captain Peter Burke, was used by the government in 1911 to search for the missing SSYongala. SS Douglas Mawson, believed...
Government Printing Office, 1912, p. 418. "SS Bruce (I) (+1911)". Toune, Rachel (13 January 2011). "Tribute to mark Yongala 100th anniversary". Townsville Bulletin...
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military training comes into effect in Australia. 23 March – The steamer SSYongala sinks in a cyclone off the coast of Townsville, Queensland killing 122...
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