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{{Cite news |date=1863-11-24 |title=Ships' Mails |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13084838 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=Sydney Morning Herald}} and owned and renamed by the South Australian Colonial Government between 1865{{Cite news |date=1865-04-21 |title=Mails by the Bombay |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13109093 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=Sydney Morning Herald}} and 1873, when she sprang a leak and was beached.{{Cite news |date=1873-07-04 |title=Wreck of the Government Schooner Flinders |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39293627 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=South Australian Register}}
- File:StateLibQld_1_140143_Flinders_(ship).jpg{{SS|Flinders|1878}} was a passenger-cargo steamer of {{GRT|948}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Screw Steamer Flinders built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd. in 1879 for Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Hobart, Passenger / Cargo |url=https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=10197 |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=www.clydeships.co.uk}} She was later in the fleets of McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co and Adelaide Steamship Company, and then hulked in 1911 after being damaged by fire{{cite web |title=Flinders |url=http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=10197|website=Clyde Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |accessdate=31 August 2019}}{{cite news |title=Launches: Pointhouse |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002683/18781108/080/0006 |accessdate=1 December 2019 |work=North British Daily Mail |agency=British Newspaper Archive (subscription) |issue=9885 |date=8 November 1878 |location=Glasgow |page=6}} and abandoned at Garden Island Ships Graveyard, where she remains.{{Cite web |title=Flinders - Garden Island |url=https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/her-maritime-flinders-fact-sheet.pdf |access-date=20 April 2024 |website=Heritage South Australia}}
- {{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.{{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J J |title=Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index |date=1969 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |page=212}}{{cite book |last1=Dawson |first1=Leslie |title=Fabulous flying boats : a history of the world's passenger flying boats |date=2013 |publisher=Pen & Sword |location=Barnsley |isbn=978-1473826755 |page=u/n |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wFCqCwAAQBAJ&q=flinders&pg=PT117 |accessdate=1 December 2019}}
- {{HMAS|Flinders|GS 312}} was a hydrographic survey ship in service from 1973 to 1998.
- {{HMAS|Flinders|FFG}} is the intended name of a {{sclass|Hunter|frigate}} that is expected to enter service in the late-2020s.
