MORE WRECKAGE.

The Advertiser (Adelaide) Wednesday 5 April, 1911

MORE WRECKAGE.

Brisbane. April,4.

A telegram was received from Lucinda

Point to-day stating that in addition to

the wreckage previously reported there is

a quantity of varnished panels washed 

ashore, also some 9 ft. teak gratings, 

metal numbered and painted red

underneath.- Mr. Wareham said the

Yongala's gratings were metal numbered,

but not so long.

Mr. Wareham to-night -received urgent 

telegram from Cairns relating to the search 

made by the steamer Tarcoola. The message, 

which was lodged at Cairns at 9 a.m. Monday, 

stated that the Tarcoola arrived at Cairns at 

noon on Sunday, after searching the Wheeler,

Keeper, Bowden, Broadhurst, and Loadstone 

reefs. The captain reports that when abreast 

of Broadhurst reef he recovered a case of 

apples and a bag of flour, both bearing the 

Cairns port mark, and when abreast of 

Wheeler reef he recovered a lifeboat cover 

and an air tank. The Tarcoola also picked up 

a bottle rack off the Keeper reef. She then

steamed north, searching the minor passage 

to Cairns, but found nothing further.

A Customs officer at Mackay, who was

formerly stationed at Bowen, says that

for a number of years warships on the

Australian station when in northern

waters have used Nares Rock as a target

for gun practice, and he thinks this might

account for the break discovered by the

masters of the Queensland and Ouraka.

Given the location of Nares Rock, it seems probable that Yongala could have struck this object and foundered as a direct result. But there again, wreckage and flotsam were primarily discovered from Townsville and to the northward; NOT southward towards Bowen and beyond.