<Tr> <Td> Speed: </Td> <Td> 15.8 knots (29.3 km / h; 18.2 mph) official top speed </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Crew: </Td> <Td> 72 </Td> </Tr> <P> The passenger ship SS Yongala 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 were lost, 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 . </P> <P> SS Yongala was a steel passenger and freight steamer built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, England to special survey for the Adelaide Steamship Company, at a cost of £ 102,000 . She was launched on 29 April 1903, and was registered in Adelaide . The vessel was named after the small town of Yongala in South Australia, a word from the Nadjuri language which meant "good water". </P>

Ship that sank off cape bowling green in 1911