HMS Investigator (1801)
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HMS Investigator was built as the mercantile Fram and launched in 1795. Purchased in 1798 by the Royal Navy she was renamed HMS Xenophon, and then in 1801 converted to a survey ship under the name HMS
20th-century drawing of HMS Investigator.
Matthew Flinders, commander of HMS Investigator.
Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as
HMS Investigator (1801)
…the Royal Navy she was renamed HMS Xenophon, and then in 1801 converted to a survey ship under the name HMS Investigator. In 1802, under the command of Matthew Flinders, she was the first ship to circumnavigate Australia. The Navy sold her in 1810 and she returned to mercantile service under the name Xenophon. She was…
Portrait by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, c. 1806–1807
1799 Flinders Expedition plaque at Mount Beerburrum, one of the Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia
Flinders in 1801, a miniature portrait on ivory
Church of St Mary and the Holy Rood, Donington, Lincolnshire, where Flinders was baptised, and was reburied in 2024