HMS Investigator (1801)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Investigator.
HMS Investigator was the mercantile Fram, launched in 1795, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1798 and 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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20th-century drawing of HMS Investigator. | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | Fram |
Builder | Unknown, at Monkwearmouth, Sunderland[1] |
Launched | 1795[1] |
Fate | Sold 1798 |
Notes | Collier |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Xenophon |
Acquired | 1798[2] |
Renamed | HMS Investigator (1801)[3] |
Fate | Sold 1810 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Xenophon |
Acquired | 1810 by purchase |
Fate | Broken up about 1872[4] |
General characteristics [5] | |
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Draught | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Depth of hold |
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Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Sloop |
Complement | 80 |
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