["The Koombana Launched", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 24 December 1908, page 8]
THE KOOMBANA LAUNCHED.
Accounts of the ceremony of launching the steamer Koombana, from the yards of Alex. Stephen and Son, Limited, Linthouse, on Oct. 2, were received by the last mail.
The Koombana, which has been built to the order of the Adelaide S.S. Company, Ltd., is 340ft in length between perpendiculars, with a beam of 48ft and a depth of 32ft. She has been constructed under British Corporation shelter deck rules as a passenger and cargo steamer, carrying first and second-class passengers, a large number of cattle, and a considerable amount of general cargo. Her engines, also supplied by the buildrs, and a set of Babcock and Willcox water-tube boilers, will be shipped at Princes Dock.
The refrigerating machinery on board has been supplied by Messrs. J. and E. Hall, Ltd., London. A Clayton fire-extinguishing and disinfecting installation has also been fitted. Seven sets of Welin quadrant davits have been fitted. The vessel was named by Mrs. S. Elgar, of Brisbane, wife of one of the company's superintendents in England.
