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SS Georgette
History
Launched
1872
Fate
Sank 1876
General characteristics
Tonnage
337 GRT
211 NRT
Length
46.2 m (152 ft)
Beam
6.9 m (23 ft)
Draft
3.4 m (11 ft)
Propulsion
two engines, 48 horsepower
2 masts, schooner rig
SS Georgette was a steamship built in 1872. She is best known, especially in Irish-American circles, for the part played in the story of the Catalpa rescue in April 1876. While the events surrounding her shipwrecking eight months later are dramatic and did capture the imagination of the local press, the ship itself had little effect on the coastal trade. Though heralding the way forward in the change from sail to steam on the long Western Australian coast, like its predecessor SS Xantho, Georgette had a short and ill-starred career and sank soon after its arrival there.
SSGeorgette was a steamship built in 1872. She is best known, especially in Irish-American circles, for the part played in the story of the Catalpa rescue...
a 16-year-old, she was involved with Sam Isaacs in the rescue of the SSGeorgette, for which she was awarded the Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal. Bussell...
Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson (1863 – 19 April 1947) was a Hungarian-born composer, singer and pianist. Best known as Georgette Peterson, she conducted...
Australian girl who along with Sam Isaacs rescued 50 people from the SSGeorgette when it foundered off the West Australian coast in 1876, is regarded...
Western Australia, who was best known for his role in the rescue of the SSGeorgette in 1876, together with Grace Bussell. Isaacs was born in 1845 in Augusta...
Bussell (1833–1877) his daughter Grace Drake-Brockman (1860–1935) of SSGeorgette shipwreck fame her children included: Edmund Drake-Brockman, Geoffrey...
Anthony and Breslin briefly travelled back together to Fremantle on SSGeorgette on 1 April, arriving the next day and were horrified to find the Royal...
They were chased by the steamship SSGeorgette, which had been commandeered by the colonial governor. Though Georgette caught up with the whaler on 19 April...
Rottnest island 1876 Hero of the Nile, British barque, near Rockingham 1876 SSGeorgette Australian steamer, Calgardup Gully, Margaret River 1877 Hadda, Australian...
Stammers) 27 July 1958 (aged 84) Last survivor of the sinking of the SSGeorgette 1 December 1876 Delphia Welford 14 November 1992(1992-11-14) (aged 117)...
of Prevelly is located at the northern end of the bay. In 1876, the SSGeorgette was wrecked in Calgardup Bay and an outline of rusting remains of the...
Bussell and Sam Isaacs helped save the lives of around 50 people as the SSGeorgette sunk off nearby Calgardup Bay. The property went out of the Bussell family...
Memorial". Hawkesbury.net.au. Retrieved 5 October 2010. "Shipwrecks " Georgette". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 5 October 2010. "Coastal Ship Lost in Big Seas"...
College in Adelaide. On 1 December 1876, George was on board the steamer SSGeorgette when it sank off Margaret River, he survived. He had been on the ship...
Queensland creating the first public fire service in Australia. 1 December – SSGeorgette runs aground near Busselton, Western Australia; Grace Bussell and Sam...
The SS Bessemer (also called the Bessemer Saloon) was an experimental Victorian cross-channel passenger paddle steamer with a swinging cabin, a concept...
the youngest (and last surviving) passenger on board, and her mother Georgette and brother Bertram Masabumi Hosono, a Japanese civil servant who jumped...
Charles, who would stay until 2 October. On 26 September, Georgette and Betty boarded the S.S. Excalibur headed for New York City, along with Prime Minister...
Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon (1884–1954), RN, was Irish, and his mother, Georgette Folsom (1883–1972), daughter of George Winthrop Folsom, was an American...
26 September, the couple boarded the S.S. Excalibur headed for New York City, arriving on 5 October 1940. Georgette and Betty Bech, the wife and daughter...
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