Talk:SS Yongala

message: Might be of use here, from Yongala- now redirects to here, though this article looks quite complete.--nixie 01:55, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Text from duplicate article

message: "Ironically Yongala was due for a refit in Cairns, including installing a radio, at the end of her last journey."
That's not ironic, it's unfortunate.  The sentence is also missing a comma.  Now, where did I put my red pen?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.150.120.43 (talk) 13:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of language 

message: Why did no one survive? Weren't there lifeboats on board?Philippe Auguste (talk) 17:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survivors

message: I have amended this sentence: "Following company tradition, the vessel was named after a word in the local Aboriginal language; 'Yongala' (originally pronounced Yonggluh) meant "broad water", or "broad wide watering place". It was also the name of the small town Yongala in South Australia."    It is not clear where "local" is:  Newcastle-on-Tyne? 
Almost all Adelaide Steamship Company vessels were named after rural towns or pastoral properties in South Australia:  Bungaree, Cantara, Ceduna, Kooringa, Manoora, Minnippa, Paringa, Willochra etc.  Yongala is a small wheat town in the southern Flinders Ranges, on the Broken Hill railway.  The name is an Aboriginal word from the Nadjuri language, meaning something like "good water".  Peter Bell (talk) 05:03, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Name Yongala

message: I have carried out some minor editing, mainly moving sentences around in the last 2 sections of the article in order to put information either in a better order or in a better place.   The most significant edit is the change to the content concerning the National Estate.  For you r information, the Register of National Estate (RNE) no longer has any statutory significance (i.e. closed in 2007 and reference in legislation completely removed by February 2012 - refer http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/rne/index.html, retrieved 21/08/2012).Cowdy001 (talk) 22:43, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Register of National Estate 

message: Someone added a tag  to the statement that Yongala unloaded 50 tons of cargo in Mackay.  In Australia in 1911, a ton meant a British Imperial ton, also known as a long ton.  50 long tons would equal about 56 US or short tons, or 49.2 metric tonnes.  What's vague?
The tosh about "a ghost ship, exactly resembling the Yongala" has no place in an encyclopaedia.  That comes from Hector Holthouse's book Cyclone, which is not a reliable historical source.  Unless there is a primary source from the period, it should be removed. Peter Bell (talk) 06:48, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two things 

message: The article as I came across it earlier today had large sections that were almost a word-for-word copy of the content at the Townsville Maritime Museum's webpage on the ship. I've made a rough pass and tried to copyedit as much as I could, but someone with a little more time on their hands should give this article a good scrubbing to avoid any possible claims of copyright violation. -- saberwyn 12:13, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overreliance on Townsville Maritme Museum webpage