POWER TRAIN.

The Advertiser, Adelaide, Thursday 10 December, 1908.

The Koombana, a passenger steamer,

built to the order of the Adelaide Steamship 

Company was launched at Glasgow by Messrs. 

Alexander Stephens & Sons, one of the largest 

shipbuilding firms in Scotland. She has a length of 

340 ft., a breadth of 

47 ft., with a depth of 

23 ft.,

These press reports could not get draft and depth figures right!

and will carry 250 passengers. She has

triple expansion engines, and has a register

of 3,000 tons. The Koombana will trade

in Western Australia, between Fremantle

and the northern ports, and will leave

the Clyde early in 1909.

The Mercury, Saturday 30 March, 1912.

'she was built to attain a speed of

14 1/2 knots.'

Wrecksite.eu quotes her speed as 12 1/2 knots. But given that Yongala, similar in so many respects, was built for 14 - 15 knots, I am inclined to believe this extract.

Indeed 13.5 knots was operating speed and 14.5 knots could be achieved under ideal circumstances.

The Advertiser, Adelaide, Wednesday 10 April, 1912

'Her engines were triple expansion, 

but not duplicate, and had all the

latest auxiliary gear.'

Koombana furnishings - courtesy Australia National University - lavish is the word!!