[Letter to the Editor, North West Telegraph (Roebourne, WA), Wednesday 02 May 1984]
Bob Hart, Roebourne, in a letter to the editor of the North West Telegraph, 2 May 1984, notes the recollections of then 100-year-old part-aboriginal Jimmy Monaghan:
"Jimmy also accounts that the Koombana was not a trusted ship by North-Westers, compared with the Bullara, as she had far more upperworks, and was considered likely to capsize. If that indeed had happened, then she could have drifted considerably before sinking, even after the blow passed. However, that is of course only speculation."
