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