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Shipwreck · Protected

SS Yongala

Sank 1911 · found 1958, Great Barrier Reef, off Townsville, QLD
PROTECTED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

SS Yongala: still unexplained.

A pristine wreck & world-class dive

The law of this ground: Protected historic shipwreck & memorial, no penetration or removal.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
A pristine wreck & world-class dive
The account

A passenger steamer lost with all 122 aboard in a cyclone. Now one of the world's great dive wrecks, encrusted and teeming with marine life on the Great Barrier Reef.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Great Barrier Reef, off Townsville, QLD; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Protected historic shipwreck & memorial, no penetration or removal.
  • What is there: A pristine wreck & world-class dive.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Great Barrier Reef, off Townsville, QLD; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Protected historic shipwreck & memorial, no penetration or removal.
  • What is there: A pristine wreck & world-class dive.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Latest Word From the Newswire

Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

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Chart position -19.305°, 147.622° (approx.) View on the Map