PECULIAR STORM.

The Western Champion, Saturday 1 April.

Apparently the captain headed for the 

wider water beyond the Passage, and 

was overpowered by the extreme force 

of the hurricane. The storm was of quite

exceptional violence, as was shown by

the fact of the Taiynan having two

of her boats blown away while sheltering 

in a passage a mile wide between

the mainland and the island (Repulse). 

The hurricane took a course inland, and

was then diverted with increased force

down the coast, where the Yongala

would have met it at its worst.

I guess there will be no end to the confusion surrounding the nature of the storm, 23 March, 1911. The Inquiry was quite clear on the matter; a cyclone some 30 n miles in diameter moving from the northeast in a southwestward direction overland between Cape Bowling Green and Cape Upstart - not diverted south, and certainly not directly influencing the  area in proximity to Repulse Islands, some 100 n miles to the south.