["The Missing Koombana", The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette (Cue, WA), Tuesday 02 April 1912]
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Koombana in Centre of Cyclone.
Mr. Moxon, manager of the Adelaide Steamship Co., interviewed, stated that nautical experts affirm that the Koombana was on the left hand of the semicircle of the cyclone at Bedout Islands, and the Amphinome Shoals under her lee, with the hurricane ahead of her making to the north involved her in a most serious position.
On the other hand the centre of the hurricane was apparently right in the track of the vessel to the open sea (to the westward).
The opinion of nautical men now is that Koombana to avoid certain destruction near Amphinome Shoals had only one alternative before her, and that was to strike face to face with the dreaded centre of the cyclone. With what result she did this the ocean search alone can reveal.
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