SS Georgette

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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 steam engines, 48 horsepower Two 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 captured the imagination of the local press, the ship itself had little effect on 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.