WRECK LOCATED.
HULL. OF S.S. CORAMBA. TOO DEEP FOR SALVAGE. Jnlted Press Assn. —Eiec. Tel. copyright. (Received Dec. 28, 2.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 28. The hull of the coastal steamer Goramba which foundered with all hands has been found by a Melbourne diver in 20 fathoms of water about one and a-half miles west of Seal Rocks, Phillip Islands. It is stated the water is too deep to make salvage possible. The Coramba, a steel steamer of 531 tons gross was owned by the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Sydney. She was built at Scotland in 1911 and since then she had been continually engaged in the Australian coastal service. She was lost with all hands (18) in a storm on the night of Thursday, November 29, whilst on a voyage from Portland to Melbourne. _
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19461, 28 December 1934, Page 6
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