newspaper reports, chronological

"Personal", The Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA), Tuesday 13 February 1906, page 14

"Loss of the Yongala", The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 21 June 1911, page 15

"Telephone Progress", The Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA), Saturday 05 August 1911, page 2

"A Blow at Port Hedland", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 23 March 1912, page 5

"A Skipper's Observations", The West Australian, Thursday 28 March 1912, page 7

"Luggers in the Gale", Broome Chronicle (WA), Saturday 30 March 1912

"The Cossack Willy Willy", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 30 March 1912, pages 5,6

"Not Sighted", The West Australian, Thursday 28 March 1912, page 7

"Three Marine Mysteries", The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), Sunday 31 March 1912, page 1

"Story of the Koombana", The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), Sunday 31 March 1912, page 12

"Koombana Foundered", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 06 April 1912, page 5

" ? ", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 13 April 1912

"The Koombana Disaster", Broome Chronicle (WA), Saturday 13 April 1912

Letters to the Editor, The West Australian, Tuesday 16 April 1912, page 6

"Was it a Koombana Signal?", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday ?20 April 1912

"The Koombana", The West Australian, Tuesday 23 April 1912, page 9

"Wreck of the Koombana", Geraldton Express (WA), Friday 26 April 1912

"The Koombana", The West Australian, Friday 26 April 1912, page 8

"Inquiry at Fremantle", The Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA), Saturday 27 April 1912, page 2

"State", Geraldton Express (WA), Monday 29 April 1912, page 4

"The Koombana", The Western Mail (Perth, WA), Saturday 04 May 1912, page 37

"Koombana Inquiry", The West Australian, Saturday 04 May 1912, page 12

"The Loss of the Koombana" (Letter to the Editor), The West Australian, Saturday 04 May 1912, page 12

"The Koombana", The Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA), Saturday 04 May 1912, page 6

"State", Geraldton Express (WA), Monday 06 May 1912, page 4

"Koombana Inquiry", The West Australian, Saturday 11 May 1912, page 6

"The Koombana", The Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA), Saturday 11 May 1912, page 5

"Loss of the Koombana", Broome Chronicle (WA), Saturday 11 May 1912

"Wreck of the Koombana", The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), Sunday 19 May 1912, page 9

"Telegrams", Geraldton Express (WA), Monday 20 May 1912, page 3

"Loss of Koombana", The Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA), Saturday 25 May 1912, page 5

"The Koombana Inquiry", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 25 May 1912, page 10

"The s.s. Bullarra", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 25 May 1912

"Koombana Inquiry", The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), Sunday 26 May 1912, page 5

"The Koombana Inquiry" (Letter to the Editor), The West Australian, Tuesday 04 June 1912, page 5

"House of Representatives", Daily News (Perth, WA), Friday 16 August 1912, page 8

"Shipping", The West Australian, Tuesday 27 August 1912, page 6

"Local and General", The Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA), Saturday 30 November 1912, page 4

"Birthday Honours", The West Australian, Wednesday 06 June 1917, page 6

"Death of Captain Irvine", The Daily News (Perth, WA), Wednesday 12 July 1922, page 8

"A Story of the Koombana", Geraldton Guardian (WA), Tuesday 06 March 1923, page 4

"Funeral Notices", The West Australian, Wednesday 15 July 1925, page 1

archive holdings

Minutes of Adelaide Steamship Company directors' meeting, Monday 22 April 1912, Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, 0186/Z535 Box 12

Minutes of Adelaide Steamship Company directors' meeting, Monday 08 July 1912, Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, 0186/Z535 Box 12

Wreck of the "Koombana" - photocopy of material relating to, Harbour and Lights Department, Western Australia, 1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. Series 1618, Cons 5055, Item 001, Telegram from Moore, Chairman West Pilbara Roads Board, to Premier Scaddan, Perth, Monday 25 April 1912

Wreck of the "Koombana" - photocopy of material relating to, Harbour and Lights Department, Western Australia, 1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. Series 1618, Cons 5055, Item 001, Telegram from Coleman, Chairman West Kimberley Roads Board, to Premier Scaddan, Perth, Monday 25 April 1912

Wreck of the "Koombana" - photocopy of material relating to, Harbour and Lights Department, Western Australia, 1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. Series 1618, Cons 5055, Item 001, Telegram from Broome Mayor Hugh D. Norman, on behalf of Council, to Premier Scaddan, Tuesday 26 April 1912

Wreck of the "Koombana" - photocopy of material relating to, Harbour and Lights Department, Western Australia, 1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. Series 1618, Cons 5055, Item 001, Memo, Colonial Secretary's staff to Premier's Department, Wednesday 27 April 1912, proposing response to requests for gathering of Koombana evidence in the Nor'-West

Extracts, Court of Marine Inquiry, loss of s.s. "Koombana", Harbour & Lights Department, Western Australia, 25 April - 6 May, 1912. WA Museum (on loan)

Official Log Book s.s. "Koombana", 28/8/1911 - 21/01/1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. ACC 1056 AN 16/4 Item 117

Official Log Book s.s. "Koombana", 28/8/1911 - 21/01/1912, State Records Office of Western Australia. ACC 1056 AN 16/4 Item 117, Hand-written record of ship's draft, fore and aft

General Arrangement, s.s. "Koombana", Ship plans on linen, Alexander Stephen & Son, 1907. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

published online

Dickson, Rod (transcribed & compiled), 1996, Ships Registered in Western Australia From 1856 to 1969, published by Maritime Heritage Association (Western Australia), http://www.maritimeheritage.org.au/documents/Shipping%20Register.pdf

passenger/crew lists

Crew lists of ships arriving at Fremantle: "Koombana" - 1/3/1910, Collector of Customs, Western Australia, National Archives of Australia. K271 KOOMBANA 26 JAN 1910

Crew lists of ships arriving at Fremantle: "Koombana" - 1/3/1910, Collector of Customs, Western Australia, National Archives of Australia. K271 KOOMBANA 1 MAR 1910

Crew lists of ships arriving at Fremantle: "Koombana" - 1/3/1910, Collector of Customs, Western Australia, National Archives of Australia. K271 KOOMBANA 26 MAR 1910

Crew lists of ships arriving at Fremantle: "Koombana" - 1/3/1910, Collector of Customs, Western Australia, National Archives of Australia. K271 KOOMBANA 29 APR 1910

Crew lists of ships arriving at Fremantle: "Koombana" - 1/3/1910, Collector of Customs, Western Australia, National Archives of Australia. K271 KOOMBANA 30 MAY 1910

interview transcript

Knight, Rupert Leonard Tower, interviewed by Chris Jeffery, 1977. Transcript: State Library of Western Australia, OH202

personal papers

Moore, Doug, Papers, Extracts from his account of his life in the Kimberley, 1904-1914., Battye Library, ACC 3829A (listing MN 1237)

speeches, presentations, seminars

Barker, Malcolm, The search for s.s. Koombana: seminar hosted by Maritime Archeological Association of Western Australia, Fremantle, 1983. Transcript: State Library of Western Australia, OH1241, Captain Upjohn's testimony discussed

internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacentric_height

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phases1901.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Secretary_of_Western_Australia

http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/intranet/libpages.nsf/WebFiles/FACTSHEETS+SN+09+MLCs+Alpha+May+10/$FILE/SN+9MLC's+Alpha_May+2010.pdf

correspondence

Doug Gordon, letter to Bethwyn Brandis, Mukinbudin, W.A., 23 March 2002, in response to a notice in The West Australian, in which Mrs Brandis sought to make contact with descendants of those lost with Koombana, copy provided to the author