SS Yongala was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1903 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. She sank in a cyclone off the coast of Queensland in 1911, with the loss of all 122 passengers and crew aboard.
Yongala in port
Yongala in port
Captain William Knight in 1911
Yongala in Fremantle
Adelaide Steamship Company
The Adelaide Steamship Company was an Australian shipping company, later a diversified industrial and logistics conglomerate. It was formed by a group of South Australian businessmen in 1875. Their aim was to control the transport of goods between Adelaide and Melbourne and profit from the need for an efficient and comfortable passenger service. For its first 100 years, the company's main activities were conventional shipping operations on the Australian coast, primary products, consumer cargoes and extensive passenger services.
Company coat of arms
Adelaide Steamship Company building, Currie Street, Adelaide in 1917 (built 1903, dem. 1986)
The Adelaide Steamship Company Charles D'Ebro designed building in Melbourne during the early 1900s
The Adelaide Steamship Company wharf in Brisbane during the early 1900s