["Story of the Koombana", The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), Sunday 31 March 1912, page 12]
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A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.
Assuming with the greatest sorrow that the Koombana and all on board have come to an untimely end, it will be a sad coincidence that Captains Knight and Allen, who commanded the Wollowra and Marloo, running together to Western Australia nearly 20 years ago, should have lost their lives and ships - the Yongala and Koombana - in exactly the same manner, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast of Australia, and almost on the same day of the same month.
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