found that both the Undola and the Myola—if properly handled—were stable. It did not have enough evidence available to make a finding upon the stability of the Tuggerah. The Royal Commission also noted that ships were only inspected prior to sailing at only three ports—Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Wollongong—and even not always at those ports. They also identified that there was no regulation preventing a ship from leaving port pending such an inspection. The Undola had sailed from Bellambi and the Tuggerah from Bulli, both ocean jetty ports at which inspections never took place. The inspection of the Myola had not prevented her sailing from Newcastle—despite having a list when she left the wharf—nor had it identified that the ship was overloaded (due to having some free-water in her ballast tanks), which had made her unstable. The Royal Commission found that the regulations against overloading—not submerging the load-line—were not well promulgated or understood, and were being interpreted by some as not submerging the load-line on just one side of the ship. It found that there had been only two prosecutions for overloading in the previous five years. Moreover, overloading, even when prosecuted, only resulted in a small fine. The Royal Commission made recommendations concerning the ships, the practices at ports and the legislation covering the coastal coal trade. Later losses and near misses Despite the Royal Commission, its findings and its various recommendations, losses of sixty-milers and the lives of their crew members continued up to 1956. There were also many near misses. Interwar period In March 1920, a small wooden twin-screw sixty-miler Queen Bee ran over a submerged object off Long Reef, breaking the tailshaft of one of her two propellers. Later in the same year, she collided with Moorabool, near 'The Dyke', and later, in February 1921, also at 'The Dyke', she collided with the full-rigged ship Cumberland. In September 1922, her luck ran out, when she foundered off Broken Bay carrying a load of coal. Her crew all survived after rowing a boat to Palm Beach. Two sixty-milers, Wallsend and Meeinderry, collided off Red Head, in May 1922. The Meeinderry made it back to Newcastle but sank just inside the breakwater. Belbowrie escaped serious damage, in June 1923, when she ran aground on a sandy bottom at Doughboy Point—a small rock headland to the east of Boat Harbour—five miles north of Cronulla. In August 1923, the small