• Fisheries
• Iron
• passengers - coastal
• Shipwreck
• SW Coast (Hamelin Bay)

Built in 1872 at Dumbarton for H. Martini, as a collier Georgette was sold in 1873 to Connor and McKay of WA for £14,000, (a mid level government servant at the time earned c. £100 PA), arriving at Fremantle in September 1873 for the coastal trading and passenger service between Fremantle, Albany and Champion Bay. Stranded on the Murray Reef in October 1873, sent to Adelaide for an overhaul. Re-entered service in March 1874. In April 1876, the American whaling barque Catalpa rescued a group of Fenian political prisoners who had absconded from Fremantle. The escape was detected while the escapees were rowing back to the Catalpa, and Georgette, was sent in pursuit with a field gun lashed to its deck but was repulsed when the Catalpa's captain denied that he had the prisoners on board, and pointed out that he was in international waters and was US flagged. Carrying fifty passengers and a cargo of jarrah, under Captain Godfrey for Adelaide via Bunbury, Busselton and Albany just after midnight on 1 December, midway between Cape Naturaliste and Hamelin Bay, a leak developed and worsened as the pumps failed and a bucket line proved ineffectual the ship was steered towards shore Around 6 p.m. the rising water extinguished the engine's fires while still some kilometres from shore. A decision was made to abandon ship but the first lifeboat to be lowered was destroyed as it was lowered and twelve drowned. As it continued into the shore at what is known as Redgate Calgardup Bay, Aboriginal stockman, Sam Isaacs raised the alarm at the Bussel homestead where he worked and 16-year-old daughter Grace Bussell returned with him on horseback. On arriving where Georgette grounded, Grace Bussell immediately rode down the cliffs and into the surf, swimming her horse out until it was alongside one of the swamped lifeboats. With as many people as possible clinging to her and her horse, she returned to shore and landed them. Bussell and Isaacs continued their rescuing efforts as further boats were lowered, taking over four hours to land all the passengers. Bussell was lauded as Western Australia's ‘Grace Darling’, and was awarded the Royal Humane Society's silver medal. Isaacs received a bronze. The hull was sold for £40 and Godfrey’s licence suspended. The wreck lies in c. 5 metres of water, c. 90 metres offshore. Located by members of the UEC, its engine was dismantled for the brass fittings and in March 1964 a propellor removed and dragged ashore, only to be lost. Despite a magnetomer search led by J. Green it has not been found. The bell is in the Augusta museum.