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The Safe That Solved a Massacre: Why Yongala Never Heard the Warning
The Safe That Solved a Massacre: Why Yongala Never Heard the Warning
A preserved steel safe raised in 1958 kept a single clue intact: serial number 9825W, the code that finally located the wreck of the SS Yongala after forty-seven years underwater. Despite a cyclone warning flagged and wirelessed ahead of her, 122 people vanished that night-so why did the urgent warning fail to reach the ship in time?
In this episode, we tell what the recovered evidence reveals about the ship, her cargo, and the timeline from Mackay to Whitsunday Passage, and we ask how a modern passenger liner could sail…
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