["The Lost Waratah", The Argus (Melbourne), Monday 19 December 1910, page 7]
THE LOST WARATAH.
Stability Questioned.
A Dramatic Incident.
Passenger's Warning Dream.
LONDON, Bec. 17.
The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the s.s. Waratah was continued yesterday.
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Shipmasters' Stories.
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Captain Cox, of the steamer Tottenham, was examined in regard to statements that the Tottenham, which left Durban 10 days after the Waratah, had passed floating bodies off East London. Captain Cox declared that he had put back on his course without making an extended search, owing to an officer having reported that the bodies seen had been found to be those of sun-fish.
Mr. Stewart, second engineer on the Tottenham, said that he and other engineers saw what they believed to be bodies, also a ship's bed, but the captain said they were fish. A rumour was circulated in the ship that it was better for the ship's company not to say what they had seen.
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