_-_SLV_H91.108-2943.jpg) Yongala in port
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| History | |
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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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| 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.