Glenbank shipwreck: Finnish vessel that sank off coast of Western Australia in 1911 found

The Glenbank docked in an unidentified port in 1895. The cargo ship has been found off the coast of Western Australia. Photograph: A.D. Edwardes Collection/State Library of South Australia

When the cargo ship Glenbank foundered in a hurricane off the coast of Western Australia in 1911, there was just one survivor.

Antle Kitala, a Finnish sailor, was in the rigging with the third mate when “disaster occurred almost in a moment”, according to the West Australian’s 13 February report.