["Submerged Wreck", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 03 October 1922, page 7]
SUBMERGED WRECK.
MAY BE THE KOOMBANA.
DARWIN, Monday.
During a voyage to Darwin the steamer Bambra, engaged in tho north-west coast trade, passed over what is thought to have been the wreck of the steamer Koombana, which was lost with all hands in March, 1912, and never heard of since. The naval survey vessel Geranium will proceed to the spot to-morrow to investigate.
[The loss of the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Koombana, in March, 1912, during a terrific typhoon, which visited the north-west coast of Australia, is a shipping disaster which has never been cleared up. The Koombana was a popular interstate passenger and cargo steamer of 4399 tons gross register, and she left Broome on Wednesday, March 20, 1912, for Port Hedland. Since then she has never been heard of, and it is believed that the vessel, with 370 souls on board, was lost during the typhoon, which raged in that area from March 20 to March 22.]
