Tuesday 25 October 2016

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.




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