["The Steamer Koombana. Good and Bad Fortune.", The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Friday 12 April 1912, page 8]
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THE WRECKAGE IDENTIFIED.
The "West Australian"' of April 3 writes:--"For 15 months Captain Clark was chief officer of the Koombana, und left in June, 1910 to take up his present position with the Harbor Trust. On being acquainted with the report by Captain Townley of the Gorgon of the finding of a panelled door 25 miles west by north of Bedout Island, he said he could positively identify the wreckage as having belonged to the Koombana. In his opinion this would be either the door leading from the chief steward's room or from one of the pantries, or from an entrance co the scullery leading to the cattle deck from the main saloon entrance. These particular doors were dark on the outside and painted white on the inside. The studs referred to in the telegram were used throughout the ship to prevent doors from slamming (being covered with rubber for that purpose). From the description he had no hesitation in saying that the wreckage belonged to the ill-fated steamer.
Regarding the position in which the wreckage was found. Captain Clark stated that it was evident the vessel had come to grief some considerable distance to the westward, and that the wreckage had been borne landwards by the set of of the tide, which always follows on a severe blow in the Nor'-West. Although he had never experienced a cyclone in the Koombana, he had gone through some very severe blows, and undoubtedly she was the finest little sea-boat he had ever sailed in."
