| Name: | YONGALA |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 29/04/1903 |
| Completed: | 10/1903 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 736 |
| Dimensions: | 3664grt, 1825nrt, 350.0 x 45.2 x 27.2ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (32, 51.5 & 84 x 54ins), 690nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 14.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 118332 |
| History: | |
| 02/10/1903 | Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd, London |
| 1903 | Registered at Port Adelaide |
| 23/03/1911 | Missing |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 110 x 1st & 180 x 2nd Class passengers |
| 23/03/1911: Sailed from Mackay for Townsville with 142 passengers & general cargo | |
| Last sighted that evening off Dent Island in Whitsunday Passage. | |
| Subsequently posted missing. | |
| 1970: Wreckage located 10 miles off Cape Bowling Green |
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Shields Daily News, Thursday, 01/10/1903