Homeward bound, Georgiana was at Saugor on 16 March, reached St Helena on 23 June, and arrived at Gravesend on 4 September.

[6] Immigrant voyage (1839-1840): Georgiana, under the command of Captain George Stephenson, departed Leith, Scotland, on 14 March 1839 with 70 passengers and a general cargo, bound for South Australia.

The surgeon-superintendent, in charge of the health of the bounty (government funded) passengers, was Dr Richard Bowker.

He kept a diary, later published, in which he recorded more than a dozen deaths, mainly infants, due to an outbreak of scarlet fever.

[11] Many complaints from the passengers about the conduct of Captain Stephenson and his crew prompted Charles La Trobe, Superintendent of the Port Phillip District, to convene an inquiry into the matter.

La Trobe wrote that, "I must consider that Mr Stephenson's conduct was undoubtedly rough and harsh towards the immigrants, perhaps at times unwarrentably so," but, "in adopting harsh measures occasionally he was actuated by a determination to preserve order and cleanliness among the immigrants.