Cane, Fred
[Passenger list, "KOOMBANA" 37, compiled 04 June 1912, Adelaide Steamship Company. Broome Historical Society]
List of passengers known to have been bound for Derby.
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From Fremantle to Broome or Derby
Cane, Fred Father enquires from 252 Peel Street, Bathurst NSW.
Port Hedland states he embarked at Fremantle as
passage worker in stewards' department.
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["Bathurst Residents' Loss", The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 08 April 1912, page 9, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15323837]
BATHURST RESIDENTS' LOSS.
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cane, of Peel-street, Bathurst, have received advice from Western Australia that their son, Frederick, aged 22, was aboard the Koombana, which is believed to have foundered with all hands. The wire states that the worst is feared concerning the vessel, since wreckage has been found. The son was educated at St. Stanislaus College. He later obtained employment with Messrs. E. Webb and Co. Having a strong desire to go to sea he embarked as a steward on a vessel in Sydney. Eventually he joined the Koombana at Port Hedland.
["Lost With The Koombana", The Bathurst Times (NSW), Tuesday 09 April 1912, page 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111378812]
LOST WITH THE KOOMBANA.
A BATHURST MAN.
MR. FRED. CANE.
Mr. Fred. Cane, aged 22, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cane, of Peel-street, Bathurst, was a passenger by the ill-fated Koombana which is supposed to have foundered in a cyclone off the north west coast of West Australia recently. This sad news reached the father Saturday morning in a telegram from Mr. Wilson, of Port Hedland, with whom Mr. Fred. Cane was staying. The information was:--
"Fred. Joined Koombana. Prepare pare yourself for the worst. Wreckage found."
From the above it will be seen that the worst has happened, and many in Bathurst who were acquainted with Mr. Cane will regret to hear the news of his apparent death. Mr. Cane was educated at St. Stanislaus' College for nine years, and after finishing his education obtained employment with Messrs. E. Webb and Co. After remaining there for some time, he became a commercial traveller, but his fondness for the sea, which was always very strong, led him to Sydney, where he embarked on a steamer as steward. Eventually he moved to the West Australian Coast, and was for some time engaged in pearling at Broome. Later he went to Port Hedland, where he joined the Koombana. Considering the terrific nature of the storm with which the vessel, and the fact that wreckage has been found along the North West Coast all doubt as to her foundering must be dispelled. Mr. Cane left Bathurst two years ago.
