What is SS Yongala?
{{DISPLAYTITLE:SS ''Yongala''}} [[Image:SS Yongala wreck.jpg|right|thumb|180px|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]].<ref>http://www.townsvillemaritimemuseum.org.au/the_yongala/ss_yongala.php</ref> All passengers onboard drowned and the shipwreck was found in 1958 off the coast of Townsville. ==Related pages== *[[Death of Tina Watson]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/11/15/22631_hpnews.html|title=Watsons grave|author=Andy Toulson |date=5 November 2008 |publisher=Bulletin|accessdate=2010-01-31}}</ref> - A drowning in 2003 at the shipwreck that became world news. == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites == * [http://www.townsvillemaritimemuseum.org.au/the_yongala/ss_yongala.php Townsville Maritime Museum] * [http://www.pro-taucher.com/location153.html Dive spot description plus underwater pictures and videos of the Yongala wreck] [[Category:1903 establishments in Australia]] [[Category:1911]] [[Category:Disasters in the 1910s]] [[Category:20th century in Australia]] [[Category:Shipwrecks]] [[Category:Queensland]]