Yongala

Boer war veteran, Corben Plath, has nothing to lose when his estranged half-brother, the CEO of the Queensland Coal Board, offers him blood money and a ticket on the luxury cruise liner S.S. Yongala. Aboard Yongala, Professor Frederick Portland is traveling to Townsville accompanied by his twelve year old niece, Felicity, and his renewable energy invention, the smoke engine. Fearing that the smoke engine will put them out of business, the Coal Board task Plath with murdering Portland and destroying his machine. Onboard Yongala, Plath strikes an innocent friendship with Felicity, not realizing that she is the niece of the man he has been sent to kill. As Yongala steams into heavy weather, Plath learns that there are other armed men onboard and that his own salvation depends on Felicity surviving the storm.