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George Bass is believed to have died at sea in 1803.

It is unknown what, exactly, George Bass died of. Bass left the Navy to become a South Pacific trader, and on 5 February 1803, he sailed the ship 'Harrington' out of Sydney Harbour with a cargo, bound for Tahiti. Bass was never heard of again, and his fate remains unknown.
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