radio, rockets had been fired, which were heard at the signal station. That assisted in the locating of six survivors, who had reached one floating lifeboat; they were picked up by the pilot boat, Captain Cook (1893), within half an hour. The subsequent search, in darkness, for the other lifeboat or any other survivors in the water was unsuccessful. The rescued men landed at Watsons Bay around midnight. Six lost their lives, including Captain Pilling, who was thrown from the bridge into the water, with one of the surviving seamen, when the ship rolled over. On 5 March 1929, a Court of Marine Inquiry found that the Annie M. Miller left Bulli with a decided list to port, caused by improper loading and that she was overloaded by 37 tons. The Inquiry also found that the Captain failed to place the tarpaulins on the hatches. The Inquiry stated that, while it could not definitely come to a conclusion as to the direct cause of the sinking, its opinion was that the improper loading and the failure to place the tarpaulins led to the ship's loss. In June 1933, only four years after the loss of the Annie M. Miller, Bulli was also the last port of call of another R. W. Miller ship, the sixty-miler Christina Fraser bound for Geelong on her maiden interstate voyage, after being switched to the interstate trade earlier in 1933. A typical sixty-miler, with a gross tonnage of only 717 tons, she was small for an interstate collier; conditions would have been cramped for the larger crew needed to cover multiple shifts on an interstate voyage. At the Marine Court of Inquiry into her loss, evidence was given that Captain Smith had admitted himself that he had on 'dozens of occasions' taken the Christina Fraser to sea with her hatches off and while coal was still being trimmed, apparently only doing so to save time. The owners contended that the hatches were put on when the ship left Bulli. The ship had no radio. She was last seen off Gabo Island on 24 June 1933 during a gale, then—despite an extensive search, and except for some wreckage washed up at Lakes Entrance—the Christina Fraser and her crew of seventeen men disappeared without trace. In May 1932, Abersea (formerly South Bulli), bound from Newcastle to Sydney carrying coal, collided with Tyalgum off Norah Head. Both were