STRANGE EVENTS.

The Advertiser (Adelaide) Tuesday 8 October, 1907.

STRANGE EVENTS AT SEA.

STEAMER STRIKES A WHALE.

Brisbane, October 7.

Some excitement was felt among the

passengers on the steamer Yongala 

yesterday on the voyage from Sydney 

to Brisbane. When off the South Solitary

Islands, and travelling at 15 knots an hour,

the Yongala struck a whale, causing the

vessel to quiver from stem to stern. She

sustained no damage.

Reports were invariably quick to add 'sustained no damage', but this was not always the case. Can't help feeling for the whale. Small comfort that this was considered a 'strange event' and not a common occurrence.