["S.S. Moira In The Gale", Broome Chronicle and Nor'West Advertiser (WA), Saturday 30 March 1912, page 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260024794]
S.S. MOIRA IN THE GALE.
Captain Ward, of the cattle steamer Moira, reports that he encountered cyclonic weather at 8 a.m., on the 20th, in latitude 19.20 south, lon. 117.0 east, a hundred miles north-west of Hedland. The Moira was run before the storm in a westerly direction for about 150 miles. The storm roughly lasted 24 hours, when the wind gradually shifted from E.N.E. round to S.W., the ship then proceeding on her voyage, passing 60 miles N.W. of Rowley Shoals. We met the Charon near Lynher Reef, at 7 a.m. on the 22nd, bound for Java. I consider the storm was more severe near land than with us. We did not see the Koombana.
AB notes:
Moira's observations emerge as important. She was the only vessel to observe the storm from the offshore side.
