Editing SS Yongala (section)

==Discovery==
In 1943, a [[Minesweeper (ship)|minesweeper]] [[Foul (nautical)|fouled]] on what was then thought to be a [[shoal]], 11 miles east of Cape Bowling Green. The commander marked on his chart an obstruction at a depth of about {{convert|13|fathom|m}}, on the route of vessels bound for Townsville.{{sfn|Holthouse|1971|pp=59–66}}

[[File:HMAS Lachlan by Allan Green SLV H91.250 1073.jpeg|thumb|{{HMAS|Lachlan|K364|6}}]]
In June 1947, the [[survey vessel]] {{HMAS|Lachlan|K364|6}} investigated the location using [[echo sounding]] and [[anti-submarine warfare|anti-submarine]] equipment. She found a shoal about {{convert|300|ft}} long, at a depth of about {{convert|6|fathom|m}}, surrounded by water {{convert|12|to|14|fathom|m}} deep, and concluded that it could be the wreck of a steamship.{{sfn|Holthouse|1971|pp=59–66}}

In 1958 a local fisherman, Bill Kirkpatrick, found the wreck, and recovered artefacts including a [[safe]] from one of the cabins. The safe contained only black sludge, but part of the safe's serial number was legible: 9825W. In 1961, [[Chubb Locks|Chubb]] in England identified this as the number of the safe that it supplied to Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. in 1903 for the cabin of ''Yongala''{{'}}s [[purser]].<ref name=Townsville/>{{sfn|Holthouse|1971|pp=59–66}}