Claim: SS Yongala was a steel passenger and freight steamer, she sank off Cape Bowling Green in 1911 and named after the small town in Australia.
Evidence: 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. The passenger ship SS Yongala sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. The vessel was named after the small town of Yongala in South Australia, a word from the Ngadjuri language which meant "good water".