[Wreck of the "Koombana" - photocopy of material relating to, Harbour and Lights Department, Western Australia, 1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. WAS1618 Consignment 5055 Item 001, Telegram, Wood, R.M., Broome to Premier Scaddan for Capt. Mills, s.s. Minderoo, Tuesday 26 March 1912]
Broome to Perth
for premier following Information important for Capt Mills Carnarvon Moira wires Sydney pigott as follows Midnight 19th Moira 75 miles NE by E ritchie bay weather squally threatening mercurial bar 29 80 aneroid 2960 wind ENE force five barometers stationary until 7a 20th wind gradually shifted to ESE increasing to force 8 noon 20th Moira position 19 15 S one seventeen ten east wind ESE force eleven mercurial bar 29 72 aneroid twenty nine fifty ship running before storm very high sea thick with rain & driving sleet 3pm wind SE by E bar 29 72 2950 force wind 11 stop 4p wind SE half E bar 29 72 2940 force wind 11 5pm Wind SE force 10 bar 29 75 aneroid 29 35 8pm wind SSE force 11 bar 29 75 force 8 bar 2982 aneroid 2940 12p conditions similar ship heading NE rolling heavily sea confused and high position 17 30 S 116 E dead reckoning 2am 21st wind S force 6 bar 29 80 29 50 squally moderating high confused sea ship on proper course N 56 E 8am similar weather condition bar 2978 29 50 noon wind WSW force 6 bar 2984 2964 from then on weather resumed normal conditions bars readings are correct although they do not agree as storm does not appear to have visited yours suggest search rowley shoals to the coastline from bedout island to Monte bello islands koombana left hedlend 10 30 am on 20th
