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Flinders (ship)
Several vessels have been named
Flinders
after British explorer
Matthew Flinders
, including:
Flinders
was a schooner owned by
the South
Australian Colonial Government between 1865 and 1873.
was a passenger-cargo
steamer
of built by
A & J Inglis
Ltd, Pointhouse,
Glasgow
for the
Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company
, Hobart. She was later in the fleets of
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand
,
McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co
and
Adelaide Steamship Company
, and then hulked in 1911 after being
damaged
by fire.
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 and was
broken up
in 1945.
was a
hydrographic survey
ship
in service
from
1973
to 1998.
is the intended name of a that is expected to
enter
service in the late-2020s.
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