 The bows of the "Queen Bee" cut the "Cumberland's" motor launch, which was moored under the stern, into two pieces, and it was a total loss.The "Queen Bee's" stem was damaged 

At 12.30 a.m in the very early morning of the Sunday 2 September 1922 with very little warning the collier "Queen Bee" foundered some two miles east-north-east of Broken Bay early while engaged in one of her regular trips between Newcastle and Sydney.Under the charge of Captain A. Gardiner and a crew of eight hands, the "Queen Bee" left Newcastle on the Friday at 4