A UNIQUE copy presented as farewell gift to one of the divers, inscribed by the crew.
Yongala (Ship) | Shipwrecks — Queensland. | Underwater archeology — Queensland. |
80 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims, maps, plan, ports. ; 22 cm.
SS Yongala was a passenger and cargo ship that sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. En route from Melbourne to Cairns she steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville.
All 122 aboard died, and traces of the ship were not found until days later, when cargo and wreckage began to wash ashore at Cape Bowling Green and at Cleveland Bay. It was believed that the hull of the ship had been ripped open by a submerged rock. The wreck, which has become a tourist attraction and dive site, was not found until 1958.