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    SS Koombana was a passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1908 for the Adelaide Steamship Company, for coastal liner services between Fremantle...
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  • Australian heat wave 143 1912 Cyclone Sinking of the SS Koombana and Balla Balla cyclone 173+ The SS Koombana was lost in a cyclone between Port Hedland and...
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    Kooringa SS Koombana HMAS Manoora TSMV Manunda MV Minnipa MV Moonta SS Paringa Polly Woodside (1922–1953) SS Warilda, later HMAT Warilda SS Willochra...
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  • Crown of England, Norwegian iron ship, Depuch Island 1912 SS Koombana, off Port Hedland 1914 SS Cambewarra, Australian iron screw steamer, Jurien Bay 1914...
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    Australia, who died in May 1910. In 1909 a tour of north-west ports in SS Koombana was undertaken including Price, and the premier Sir Newton Moore. It...
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    SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship. She is thought to have been the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least her rockets, during the...
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  • Retrieved 24 February 2019. "Koombana (1912/03/21)". Shipwreck Databases. Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 12 March 2019. "Koombana". Archived from the original...
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  • pearling fleet sought refuge in Balla Balla Creek and were unscathed. SS Koombana, which was sailing through the area, was also listed as missing. The...
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    wife and youngest daughter. Transport portal List of maritime disasters Koombana, a steamship lost in 1912 off Western Australia Waratah, a steamship lost...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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  • ships were sunk in the area, such as the passenger liner SS Koombana. The newly built tug SS Wyola sailing for Fremantle was despatched to rescue the...
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  • (18 December 1859 – March 1912), died when the ship he skippered, the SS Koombana was caught in a cyclone and lost with all hands. Seaborn C. R. Allen...
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  • The SS Kiche Maru was a Japanese steamship that sank during a typhoon on 22 September 1912. Although more than 1,000 died, the disaster has long been overshadowed...
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    SS Leafield was a Canadian steel-hulled cargo ship built by the Strand Stepway Company in Sunderland, England, in 1892. Originally registered in Newcastle...
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    SS Koombana, Wyndham, c. 1911...
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  • known as "Baton Friday" and later, "Black Friday". 20 or 21 March – The SS Koombana sinks off Western Australia during a cyclone, killing around 150 people...
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    SS Augsburg was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1896 for the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft (DADG). She disappeared in...
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    SS Fürst Bismarck was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) ocean liner. She was launched in Scotland in 1905. In 1914 she was renamed Friedrichsruh. In 1919...
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    Broome. SS Koombana was accompanied by another liner, SS Bullara, when the cyclone struck them both. While the Bullara was able to reach port, Koombana was...
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    SS Nicaragua was a cargo ship that ran aground on Padre Island off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico in 1912. Nicaragua was built in 1891 in Bergen...
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    averted only a few minutes later, as the Titanic passed the moored liners SS City of New York of the American Line and Oceanic of the White Star Line,...
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    entrepreneur Abraham de Vahl Davis (1864 – 1912), went down with the steamship SS Koombana after having purchased the legendary – and presumably cursed – Roseate...
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    SS Oceana was a P&O passenger liner and cargo vessel, launched in 1887 by Harland and Wolff of Belfast and completed in 1888. Originally assigned to carry...
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    SS Onoko was an iron-hulled Great Lakes freighter. She was launched in 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio by the Globe shipbuilding firm, as its hull number #4, and...
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    Feb: H. K. Bedford Feb (unknown date): Augsburg 12 Mar: Oceana 20 Mar: Koombana 2 Apr: USS Santee 15 Apr: RMS Titanic (sinking) 20 Apr: Sultaniye 12 May:...
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  • The SS Keystorm was a steel freighter that sank in 1912 after hitting Scow Island shoal. The sinking was considered the most significant accident in the...
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  • SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1879. She replaced a vessel of the same name Ralph Creyke...
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    SS Friendship was an Australian cargo ship which ran aground and sank at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, at the end of South Wall during a voyage...
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    Feb: H. K. Bedford Feb (unknown date): Augsburg 12 Mar: Oceana 20 Mar: Koombana 2 Apr: USS Santee 15 Apr: RMS Titanic (sinking) 20 Apr: Sultaniye 12 May:...
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    sortied from Asan, possibly to rendezvous with the chartered British steamer, SS Kowshing, carrying the last of the Chinese troops. Jiyuan may have tried to...
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