[Knight, Rupert Leonard Tower, interviewed by Chris Jeffery, 1977. Transcript: State Library of Western Australia, OH202]
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Going back a little bit 1912 I was struggling into Port Hedland with a broken bowsprit in my lugger when I passed the ill fated Koombana going out of Port Hedland harbour, going over the bar she was lifting her stern way out of the water and..
Why?--
The swell the big swell over the bar the entrance to Port Hedland Harbour and that was the last we heard of her she just disappeared, not a trace.
That was a tragic thing.
Terrible...
