CAPTAINS REES, SIM AND MACKENZIE.

The Advertiser (Adelaide) Tuesday 27 March, 1906.

Yongala, 1820 tons, J Rees from Brisbane,

via ports. Adelaide Steamship Company agents.

Passengers - 46 saloon, 49 second cabin, and 

96 en route to Western Australia.

Grantala, 1787 tons, J Sim, from Western

Australia. Adelaide Steamship Company agents.

Passengers - 35 saloon 48 second cabin, and 

105 en route to eastern States

Note how the masters of the Adelaide Steamship Company swapped vessels from time to time. Captain Rees was later to be associated with the SS Koombana which was also lost in a cyclone - 20 March, 1912, under the command of Captain Allen.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 9 June 1906.

The Adelaide Company's steamer Yongala, with

117 passengers, arrived at Sydney at 8.30 a.m. 

yesterday, after a fair weather trip from Western 

Australia, in command of Captain C O. Mackenzie. 

She left Fremantle on May 30, Albany on May 31,
Adelaide on Monday last, and Melbourne at 5.30 p.m.
on Wednesday.

SS Koombana (wikipedia) - note prominent superstructure - a trend.