THE KOOMBANA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 84, 6 April 1912, Page 2

THE KOOMBANA.

The Koombana is a comparatively new steamer, having been built as recently as 1908 by Messrs A. Stephen* and Sons, Glasgow, to the order of the Adelaide Steamship Company. She is a three-deck vessel, 340 ft. long, with a breadth of 48ft., and a depth of 20ft., and her gross tonnage is 3668 tons.

It will be remembered that another vessel belonging to the same company, the Yongala, was reported as missing after a' severe gale on the Queensland' coast in March of last year. She left' Mackay for *Townsville on March 23rd; and'was never afterwards heard of. There were on board the Yongala 73 passengers and a crew of 68—141 souls in all. The Yongala was built for the Adelaide Company by Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., of Newcastle, 'England, in 1903. She was a.. Vessel of 3664 tons gross, almost exactly the same tonnage as the Koombana, and about the same size, for instance, as the Warrimoo or Mokoia of the Union Company's fleet. The Adelaide Co. has a fleet of thirty-two vessels, twenty-three of which are of over 1000 tons gross register. The Echunga (4589 tons) is the largest vessel of the fleet.