HMS Investigator

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 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 probably broken up c.1872.

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1795  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Fram; HMS Xenophon; Xenophon
length 30.63 metre, beam 8.69 metre, draft 4.6 metre, 
collier, survey vessel, Royal Navy, 

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Frameless

Memorial Plaque at Memory Cove, Port Lincoln - Mr John Thistle, William Taylor and six able seamen were lost from HMS Investigator in 1802(GN03200)

Cape of Good Hope, view north-west from Fish Hoek Bay

Cape of Good Hope, Table Mountain

StateLibQld 2 104720 Drawing of the 'Investigator' tree on Sweers Island, 1857

StateLibQld 2 389221 Investigator Tree, Sweers Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, 1871

StateLibQld 2 128682 Image of the 'Investigator' tree on Sweers Island in 1871

Investigator

HMS investigator anchor

Investigator's stream anchor

Esperance Museum Flinders plaque

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Memorial Plaque at Memory Cove, Port Lincoln - Mr John Thistle, William Taylor and six able seamen were lost from HMS Investigator in 1802(GN03200)		Commons
commons	image		Cape of Good Hope, view north-west from Fish Hoek Bay		Commons
commons	image		Cape of Good Hope, Table Mountain		Commons
commons	image		StateLibQld 2 104720 Drawing of the 'Investigator' tree on Sweers Island, 1857		Commons
commons	image		StateLibQld 2 389221 Investigator Tree, Sweers Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, 1871		Commons
commons	image		StateLibQld 2 128682 Image of the 'Investigator' tree on Sweers Island in 1871		Commons
commons	image		Investigator		Commons
commons	image		HMS investigator anchor		Commons
commons	image		Investigator's stream anchor		Commons
commons	image		Esperance Museum Flinders plaque		Commons