Fanny Nicholson was an iron-framed, timber-clad barque that sank in 1872 in Frenchman's Bay[2] in King George Sound near Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

[4] It was operating as a whaler out of Hobart in 1871, owned by Captain John McArthur and William Andrews.

[1] The ship struck a whale on 21 November 1872 while en route from Hobart to Albany.

The following night a gale rose from the southeast and it broke two anchor cables and foundered close to shore at Goode Beach.

[1][5] A total of 70 tuns (66,775 litres)[6] of sperm oil, the sails, rigging, whaling equipment, provisions and other contents were recovered from the wreck and shipped to Hobart for auction.