George was a sloop of 28 tons that John Palmer of Sydney had built on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.

[2] In 1806, George, under the command of Thomas Birbeck, was carried onto rocks by a strong current in Twofold Bay in late January or early February.

[citation needed] On 20 March 1806 Venus left Sydney to find the wreck and refloat it.

However, on arrival it was discovered to be in such bad condition that the cargo of 5000 sealskins were removed and the ship set on fire to salvage the ironwork.

Bad weather forced them to land at Jervis Bay where they asked two aborigines to guide them to Sydney.