["Not Sighted", The West Australian, Thursday 28 March 1912, page 7]
NOT SIGHTED.
THE KOOMBANA'S FATE.
AN ANXIOUS DAY.
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A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.
The Adelaide S.S. Company have experienced trouble for two years running in the month of March, and in that connection a remarkable coincidence is noted. On March 26, 1911, the Company's ill-fated Queensland liner, Yongala, which left Mackay on a voyage to Townsville on March 23, was posted missing. Now, after twelve months, the Koombana is missing on exactly the same date, although it is to be hoped without the same sad consequences. The latitude in which the two ships were concerned in the cyclonic disturbances, although at opposite sides of the Commonwealth, is practically the same latitude.
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