Flinders (ship)

Several vessels have been named Flinders after British explorer Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), including:

Flinders was a schooner built in 1863 at Brisbane Water as Jenny Cox^[1] and owned and renamed by the South Australian Colonial Government between 1865^[2] and 1873, when she sprang a leak and was beached.^[3]
Flinders (1878)
SS Flinders (1878) was a passenger-cargo steamer of 948 GRT built by A & J Inglis Ltd, Pointhouse, Glasgow for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, Hobart, which merged with Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.^[4] She was later in the fleets of McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co and Adelaide Steamship Company, and then hulked in 1911 after being damaged by fire^[5]^[6] and abandoned at Garden Island Ships Graveyard, where she remains.^[7]
HMS Flinders was a Royal Navy survey ship, completed in 1919 by Lobnitz & Co, Renfrew. She was laid down as the Aberdare-class minesweeper Radley but repurposed during construction. Flinders became an accommodation ship in 1940, then was a blockship at Poole from 1942. She was broken up at Falmouth in 1945.^[8]^[9]
HMAS Flinders (GS 312) was a hydrographic survey ship in service from 1973 to 1998.
HMAS Flinders (FFG) is the intended name of a Hunter-class frigate that is expected to enter service in the late-2020s.

Citations

^ "Ships' Mails". Sydney Morning Herald. 1863-11-24. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ "Mails by the Bombay". Sydney Morning Herald. 1865-04-21. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ "Wreck of the Government Schooner Flinders". South Australian Register. 1873-07-04. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ "Screw Steamer Flinders built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd. in 1879 for Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Hobart, Passenger / Cargo". www.clydeships.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ "Flinders". Clyde Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
^ "Launches: Pointhouse". North British Daily Mail. No. 9885. Glasgow. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 8 November 1878. p. 6. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
^ "Flinders - Garden Island" (PDF). Heritage South Australia. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ Colledge, J J (1969). Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 212.
^ Dawson, Leslie (2013). Fabulous flying boats : a history of the world's passenger flying boats. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. u/n. ISBN 978-1473826755. Retrieved 1 December 2019.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

[1] "Ships' Mails". Sydney Morning Herald. 1863-11-24. Retrieved 2024-04-19.

[2] "Mails by the Bombay". Sydney Morning Herald. 1865-04-21. Retrieved 2024-04-19.

[3] "Wreck of the Government Schooner Flinders". South Australian Register. 1873-07-04. Retrieved 2024-04-19.

[4] "Screw Steamer Flinders built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd. in 1879 for Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Hobart, Passenger / Cargo". www.clydeships.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-19.

[5] "Flinders". Clyde Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

[nbdm08111878-6] "Launches: Pointhouse". North British Daily Mail. No. 9885. Glasgow. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 8 November 1878. p. 6. Retrieved 1 December 2019.

[7] "Flinders - Garden Island" (PDF). Heritage South Australia. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

[8] Colledge, J J (1969). Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 212.

[9] Dawson, Leslie (2013). Fabulous flying boats : a history of the world's passenger flying boats. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. u/n. ISBN 978-1473826755. Retrieved 1 December 2019.

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