George (1802 ship)

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title: George (1802 ship)
text: George was an Australian sloop launched in 1802 and wrecked in 1806. She spent her brief career seal hunting in Bass Strait. George was a sloop of 28 tons that John Palmer of Sydney had built on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. On 15 May 1803 George ran aground on New Year's Island on her way to Bass Strait. She was eventually refloated on 1 February 1804, although a carpenter drowned in the process. In 1806, George, under the command of Thomas Birbeck, was carried onto rocks by a strong c
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