PS Young Australian
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| infobox caption = PS Young Australian }} |+ {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:Wreck of the 'Young Australian' (B 10132) Cropped from original.png | Ship caption = Wreck of the PS Young Australian in the Roper River, April 1889. }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = South Australia | Ship flag = 70px | Ship name = Young Australian | Ship renamed = | Ship operator = Charles Todd | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Money Wigram & Sons | Ship yard number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = 12 October 1853 | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship registry = | Ship identification = | Ship struck = February 1873 | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship honors = | Ship fate = Sunk, 30 December 1872 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = | Ship type = Paddle steamer | Ship tonnage = 92.59 GRT | Ship length = {{cvt|28.23|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{cvt|4.87|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = {{cvt|2.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | Ship draft = | Ship sail plan = Schooner | Ship hold depth = | Ship propulsion = | Ship speed = | Ship range = | Ship complement = 7 crew | Ship sensors = | Ship EW = | Ship armament = | Ship armour = | Ship armor = | Ship aircraft = | Ship aircraft facilities = | Ship notes = }} |
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PS Young Australian was a paddle steamer that was lost on the Roper River in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia.{{cite web
| url = https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/heritage/young-australian-steam-ship-built-1853-wrecked-1872
| title = Young Australian, steam ship, built 1853, wrecked 1872-
| publisher = Engineers Australia
| access-date = 2020-05-09
}}
In 1854, Young Australian was driven ashore at Cape Northumberland in South Australia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=26 January 1855 |page=10 |issue=21959 |column=D }} It serviced the Roper River in the Northern Territory for twenty years before sinking in 1872 while bringing supplies for the overland telegraph work crews at Roper Bar.{{cite news| url= http://www.smh.com.au/news/Northern-Territory/Roper-Bar/2005/02/17/1108500201664.html |title= Roper Bar| work= Sydney Morning Herald| date= February 8, 2004}} Young Australian sunk upstream from the settlement at Ngukurr,{{cite web| url= https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/25/152/continue | title=The wreck of the paddle-steamer 'Young Australia' in the Roper River| via= collections.slsa.sa.gov.au| publisher= | access-date= }}{{cite book| last= Ashford| first= Stephen Allan| title= Endurance, courage and shipwreck in the Roper River 1871-1872| publisher= N.T. Office of Environment and Heritage |place= Darwin| year= 2004}} and can still be seen in the river on the edge of the Limmen National Park.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
In 1980, the wreck site was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.{{cite AHD|101|Young Australian Shipwreck, Ngukurr,(sic) NT, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate |date=21 October 1980|access-date=7 April 2020}}
Young Australian received an Engineering Heritage Marker from Engineers Australia as part of its Engineering Heritage Recognition Program.
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Category:Paddle steamers of Australia
Category:Maritime incidents in 1854
Category:Maritime incidents in 1872
Category:Shipwrecks of the Northern Territory
Category:Northern Territory places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
Category:Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers
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