[Barker, Malcolm, The search for s.s. Koombana: seminar hosted by Maritime Archeological Association of Western Australia, Fremantle, 1983. Transcript: State Library of Western Australia, OH1241, see comments by Scott Sledge]
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Scott Sledge: "It was felt that the Captain was such a cautious - he was a teetotaller incidentally - young man and a very able seaman."
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this is how SLWA has it...
[http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1842054~S2]
Title [Talk given by Malcolm Barker].
Imprint 1983.
LOCATION CALL NO STATUS
3rd Floor Oral History OH1241 Transcript (Reading room) NOT FOR LOAN
3rd Floor Oral History Stack OH1241 Transcript master NOT FOR LOAN
Summary Wreck of the Koombana.
Subject Barker, Malcolm -- Interviews.
Koombana (Steamship)
Shipwrecks -- Western Australia -- Port Hedland Region.
