ship that sank off cape bowling green in 1911
SS Yongala
title: SS Lusitania text: SS Lusitania SS "Lusitania" was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people on board, eight died when a life boat capsized. On 20 April the ship slipped off the rock into of water to title: SS Yongala text: SS Yongala The passenger ship SS "Yongala" sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. En route from Melbourne to Cairns she steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville. All 122 aboard were lost, and traces of the ship were not found until days later, when cargo and wreckage began to wash ashore at Cape Bowling Green and at Cleveland Bay. It was believed that the hull of the ship had been ripped open by a submerged rock. The wreck, which has become a tourist attraction and dive site, was not found until 1958. SS title: SS Lusitania text: the east of the rock. The sinking of "Lusitania" spurred the local authorities to construct a new lighthouse on the Cape Point. SS Lusitania SS "Lusitania" was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people title: RMS Medina (1911) text: P&O during the war. torpedoed her off Start Point, Devon on 28 April 1917. Today "Medina"s wreck is upright with a 15 degree list to port. She is reasonably intact despite salvage of copper and passengers' baggage from forward holds. Her stern is most damaged and she is sinking into the mud of the seabed. Her bulkheads are collapsing and her compartments are folding down. RMS Medina (1911) RMS "Medina" was an ocean liner built by Caird and Company, Greenock, Scotland, in 1911, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was a Royal Mail Ship intended for use title: PS Anthony Wayne text: PS Anthony Wayne The PS "Anthony Wayne (also known as Anthony B. Wayne or General Wayne") was an early wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank on the day of April 28, 1850 in Lake Erie off the coast of Vermilion, Ohio after two of her starboard side boilers exploded. There was an estimated 50 to 69 people onboard but the ship's passenger manifest was unclear about how many passengers boarded the "Wayne" at each location. Although the ship's clerk reported that there were 80 to 100 people onboard which included the crew with about 30 of them surviving. The wreck of