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HMS Investigator (1801)

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the ship's timbers were examined; the dockyard refit/conversion had failed to rectify and fix major faults with the ship, and as the voyage to Australia had revealed, she was in poor shape: the wood was rotting and there were serious extensive leaks. The ship's carpenter reported that she would not
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On 21 February 1802 a tragic accident occurred when a shore party which included Ships Master John Thistle, midshipman William Taylor and six seamen were lost when a boat capsized attempting to return to the ship at dusk in choppy waters. No bodies were recovered. Flinders named the headland
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as best calculated for voyages of discovery. She had been purchased some years before into His Majesty's service; and having been newly coppered and repaired, was considered to be the best vessel which could, at that time, be spared for the projected voyage to Terra
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Flinders did, however, complete the circumnavigation of Australia, but not without lightening the ship by jettisoning two wrought-iron anchors. These were found and recovered in 1973 by divers at Middle Island, and lifted from the water and carried to port by the
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and ample space for supplies, making her particularly suitable for a long exploratory voyage. On the other hand, she was in relatively poor condition, and could therefore be spared from service in the
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had come aboard while the ship was in port, incapacitating both lieutenants, the midshipman and one third of the crew. A further six crew members deserted in Liverpool before
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decided to launch an expedition to map the Australian coastline, as well as further study the plant and animal life on the new colony. Attached to the expedition was the
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s, both launched in Massachusetts, all of roughly similar sizes, but the American ones are much younger. In no subsequent year in the table below is there a second
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for repairs. Two of the crew died of disease before the ship was ready to return to sea. On 13 November, Kent wrote that a "more deplorable crazy vessel than the
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carried away most of her sails and rigging and part of the mainmast. Unwilling to risk further damage, Kent abandoned the voyage to Portsmouth and brought
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off South West Australia on 6 December 1801. The expedition put into King George Sound (Albany) for a month before beginning a
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hoping to find a replacement, but was unsuccessful. By now a number of the crew were unwell with numerous diseases, such as
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The United Service Magazine: With which are Incorporated the Army and Navy Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, Part 2
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Correspondence, Captain Kent to Admiralty Secretary William Marsden, 13 November 1805. Cited in Bladen 1979, pp. 729–730
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could be repaired and returned to service. The work involved cutting down the front deck and re-rigging the ship as a
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and some of his associates as state prisoners from Hamburg to England. Around February 1800 Sayer removed to HMS
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and transferred to other vessels. In January 1806 the ship herself was removed from active service and placed
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for Australia on 18 July 1801, calling at the Cape of Good Hope before crossing the Indian Ocean and sighting
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Dockyard on 6 August. The Navy armed her with 22 carronades to serve as an escort vessel, and renamed her HMS
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arrived in Plymouth harbour on 21 November, where she was declared unseaworthy. On 22 December her crew were
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As discovery vessel: 6 × 12-pounder carronades + 2 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × long 6-pounder cannon + 2 ×
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sailed. There was no ship's surgeon or medicine aboard, and Captain Kent observed that the provisions in
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was rebuilt as a commercial sailing vessel, brig or snow rigged and reverted to her former naval name
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had only just been signed, and both believed the two countries were still at war with one another.
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Australia Circumnavigated – The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator 1801–1803
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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
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was put to sea nonetheless, rounding the tip of Cornwall in heavy storms. A gale off
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Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
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sailed poorly after losing her keels and Flinders ordered her back to Port Jackson.
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to the Port of Plymouth. The voyage was a difficult one despite its brevity. A
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Her final voyage occurred in 1853, when she put into the Australian port of
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spent the next ten weeks preparing and took aboard 12 new men, including an
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On 19 January 1801, the Navy appointed Lieutenant Flinders commander of the
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reached Port Jackson on 9 June 1803 and, on her return to Sydney, Governor
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hugged the east coast, passed through the Great Barrier Reef and transited
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for the expedition: her former mercantile role meant that she had a small
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as an armed ship for the North Sea. In 1799 he brought the Irish rebel
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Historical records of New South Wales. Vol. 5, King, 1803, 1804, 1805
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Essay: Flinders and the voyage of the Investigator 1801–1803
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left Port Jackson, sailing north in company with the brig
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and attempted to return to England as a passenger aboard
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Stream anchor from Matthew Flinders' ship 'Investigator'
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In November 1805 Captain Kent was ordered to relocate
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back to England, carrying two of Flinder's botanists,
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requested that a survey of the vessel be carried out:
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with whom Flinders had previously sailed on the sloop
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between November 1800 and March 1801, and renamed her
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She continued to sail extensively around the globe.
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Hulk: 101 ft 5 in (30.9 m) (overall)
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(2015). 1488:; Warlow, Ben (2006) . 1348:29 October 2013 at the 845:Later years (1804–1810) 830:as a storeship hulk at 812:to Governor King, from 299:15 ft (4.6 m) 27:Sloop of the Royal Navy 18:HMS Investigator (1798) 1561:Winfield, Rif (2008). 1333:, Kent Town, SA, pp.48 1126:later continued on to 824: 613:Great Australian Bight 589: 521:. The Admiralty chose 390: 1595:The National Archives 1510:"The Flinders Papers" 786:Further information: 488:At the urging of the 381: 1394:23 July 2008 at the 214:Broken up about 1872 1546:. 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Index

HMS Investigator (1798)
HMS Investigator

Monkwearmouth
Sunderland
bm
Sloop
carronades
swivel guns

Matthew Flinders
Royal Navy
survey ship
Matthew Flinders
circumnavigate
Australia
Sunderland
collier
Deptford
George Sayer
James Napper Tandy
naturalist
Joseph Banks
Admiralty
botanist
Robert Brown
botanical artist
Ferdinand Bauer
landscape artist
William Westall

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