SS Yongala

SS Yongala was a passenger and cargo steamship built by Armstrong Whitworth at its Low Walker yard on the Tyne for the Adelaide Steamship Company. Launched on 29 April 1903 as yard number 736, she carried 110 first class and 130 second class passengers and about 3,000 tons of cargo at 16 knots, with a triple expansion engine fed by coal-fired boilers. She worked the Australian coastal trade, including the longest interstate route of her day between Fremantle and Brisbane. On 23 March 1911 she steamed into a cyclone off Queensland and vanished with all 122 people aboard. Her wreck was found in 1958 and is now a protected and popular dive site.