A GRIM REMINDER.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September, 1913.

MISSING KOOMBANA.

PERTH, Tuesday.

On July 20, at Middle Forestier reef, half

way between Forestier and Dupuch Islands,

in the north-west, Captain Cummings, of the

schooner Queenie Alice, picked up part of a

bridge ladder and the back of a saloon seat,

painted with a floral design. The relic has

since been brought into Carnarvon, and is
believed to have formed part of the fittings of
the missing steamer Koombana.

And decades later in the 1930's....

A pearler with whom he was acquainted 

had found a stateroom door among drift 

wood on Stuart Island, (Great Sandy Island

Nature Reserve) which he believes to be 

wreckage from the the lost steamer.