HMS Xenophon

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Xenophon, 1798
Type: Armed Ship ; late Collier ; Armament 22
Purchased : 1798 ;
Disposal date or year : Nov 1810
BM: 334 tons
Notes:

Circa Jan 1801 Captain Martin, late of the Xenophon, is appointed to command the Explosion bomb-vessel ; and the Xenophon is ordered to be fitted for the reception of astronomers and scientific men, and is going, it is said, on a voyage of discovery.

1800-1801 Xenophon renamed Investigator, to be converted for use as a survey vessel under Commander Flinders.