["A Skipper's Observations", The West Australian, Thursday 28 March 1912, page 7]
A SKIPPER'S OBSERVATIONS.
STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN RICHARDSON.
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During his trip down the coast this time he narrowly missed the cyclone which proved so disastrous to the Bullarra and other craft. "I left Port Hedland last Monday week" he said, "and called in at Balla Balla, where I took I took a lot of witnesses aboard for Cossack. We left Cossack on Tuesday afternoon, and had to anchor in the passage outside Onslow overnight, and did not make that port until the next day. When we were anchored in the passage there was a heavy swell coming in from the N.E., and I could tell there was some dirty weather about--in fact, it was apparently so near that I was seriously thinking of clearing round the Monte Bello Islands and leaving Onslow out of the itinerary altogether. However, I called in during the following morning, and got through without mishap. I have been lucky with several of these blows, in being either a day or so ahead or astern of some of them."
