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} |} HMS ''Investigator'' was the mercantile ''Frum'', 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. ==Background== ''Frum'' was built in Sunderland as a collier. She operated off the north-east coast of England before the Royal Navy purchased her in 1798. Pitcher, of Northfield refitted her between 27 April and 24 May 1798. She then went to Deptford Dockyard on 6 August. The Navy armed her with 22 carronades to serve as an escort vessel, and renamed her HMS ''Xenophon''.〔 Commander George Sayer commissioned ''Xenophon'' as an armed ship for the North Sea. In 1799 he brought the Irish rebel James Napper Tandy and some of his associates as state prisoners from Hamburg to England.〔''The United Service Magazine: With which are Incorporated the Army and Navy Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, Part 2'' (1831), p.221.〕 Around February 1800 Sayer removed to . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Investigator (1801)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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