ship that sank off cape bowling green in 1911
SS Yongala
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
SS Yongala
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
SS Yongala
husband of eleven days was subsequently imprisoned for manslaughter. The heritage-listed Yongala Lodge in North Ward, Townsville, is named after the SS "Yongala". The house was originally built for Matthew Rooney who died on the "Yongala" in 1911 along with his wife and youngest daughter. The wreck appeared in an episode of the "Great Barrier Reef" documentary, where it was seen as a home for many sea creatures. 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
SS Yongala
Peter McManus Peter McManus VC (March 1829 – 27 April 1859) was born in Tynan, County Armagh, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. McManus was approximately 28 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of Foot (later The Northumberland Fusiliers), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 26 September 1857 at Lucknow, India for which he and Private John Ryan was awarded the VC: He
Peter McManus
Compositores, Xochipilli and Las Serpientes fountains. The area contains jogging trails, places for yoga and karate, and other exercise facilities on the tree areas. Around 1,000 people each day go to this section to exercise. The jogging trails were doubled from 2 km to 4 km in the late 2000s. One part of this section is dominated by the Feria de Chapultepec amusement park, located near the Lago Mayor, just off the Anillo Periférico. The park has a capacity of 15,000 people and is visited by about two million each year. It includes several roller coasters, including the Montaña Infinitum.
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by the duo Drinking Electricity) offered them money to work in the studio. In Survival, recorded and released an EP called "Earth Report" in 1982 and the album "The Same Mistakes" in 1983. Shortly afterwards, it seems Faith Global split up. Shears continues playing guitar, but retired from the music business, while the whereabouts of Guy are unknown. Faith Global Faith Global was a synthpop and new wave band composed of Stevie Shears (guitar, bass, synthesizer, piano), original Ultravox! guitarist and Jason Guy (vocals, acoustic guitar). Stevie Shears had been in Ultravox! and Cowboys International, when suddenly Faith Global was
Faith Global
of Africville allowed for industrial development in the area and for the progress of the city's traffic grid, with the construction of the 'new' bridge. The Africville residents and descendants were dispersed among some of the North End's public housing projects, as well as into other parts of Halifax and Dartmouth. Gottingen Street is the commercial and entertainment heart of the North End. It is home to numerous shops, bars, clubs, and performance venues. In 1950, the four blocks of Gottingen closest to downtown were the site of more than 130 enterprises, including two cinemas. The street declined in stature
North End, Halifax
Steve Alaimo Steve Alaimo (born December 6, 1939) is an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s. He later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is" in the late 1960s. He had nine singles to chart in the "Billboard" Hot 100 without once reaching the Top 40 in his career, the most by any artist. Alaimo was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved to Rochester, New York, at the age of five. He entered the music business during his time as
Steve Alaimo
Hartwell (1787 ship) Hartwell was a 3-decker ship of the British East India Company (EIC) launched in 1787. On her maiden voyage she ran aground and sank off the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa. "Hartwell" was built by Caleb Crookenden and Co. of West Itchenor, West Sussex, launched "Hartwell" in February 1787, for John Fiott, who claimed she was the largest ship of her kind in the service of the EIC. Captain Edward Fiott sailed "Hartwell" from The Downs on 25 April 1787, bound for China. She was on her maiden voyage, loaded with goods including of silver. After
Hartwell (1787 ship)
into the south Atlantic. On 27 November she sank the 5,922 ton Dutch merchant ship "Polydorus" after a 50-hour pursuit, the longest recorded by any U-boat in the Second World War. Off Cape São Roque, Brazil, on 13 December 1942 the crew of "U-176" boarded the 1,629 ton Swedish cargo ship "Scania", and sank her with scuttling charges after the crew had abandoned ship. On 16 December she sank the unescorted 5,881 ton British cargo ship "Observer" with two torpedoes. Prior to the sinking of "Scania", a young seaman, Gottfrid Sundberg, surreptitiously photographed "U-176" from "Scania". "U-176" arrived back at
German submarine U-176
and 1893, and perhaps the "Margaret", the "Bertha" (1902, 1911), and the "T. Towner". In July, 1915, the "Gifford" left Provincetown, MA on her final voyage. After dropping off supplies and picking up a two years' catch of furs from Captain Cleveland at Cape Fullerton in September 1915, she was never heard from again. In 1917, George Fred Tilton of Martha's Vineyard was hired by the Monjo company to investigate the disappearance of the schooner. He sailed to Hudson Bay on the schooner "Pythian" and determined that it had burned and sank in flames on its homeward journey. Tilton wrote,
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SS Alert SS "Alert" was a steamship that sank off Cape Schanck, Victoria, Australia on 28 December 1893. The ship was built for the gentle waters of Scottish lochs and was almost long and weighed 247 tonnes. After "Alert" sank the ship laid for 113 years on the ocean floor until being rediscovered in June 2007 by a team from Southern Ocean Exploration. "Alert" was built at Port Glasgow in 1877 and later sailed to Australia as a three-masted schooner with her funnel and propeller stowed in the hold. After a few years on the Melbourne–Geelong route she temporarily replaced
SS Alert
sank two steamers. The first, "Virginia", was sunk on the 16th while carrying salt destined for Calcutta. Two men on board the 4,279-ton British ship were lost when she went down off Cape Matapan. Two days later, the French ship "Ville de Rouen" was sunk southwest of Cape Matapan. The 4,721-ton "Ville de Rouen" would be "UB-45"s largest victim. Germany's conquest of Romania provided the German Imperial Navy with sufficient fuel oil for submarines to operate in the Black Sea. "UB-45" and three of her sister ships in the Pola Flotilla were ordered to Constantinople and, en route, had to
SM UB-45
SS Yongala
Title: SS Yongala. Content: 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
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