Description
Description: RAN Tally Band – HMAS Flinders.
Maker’s Name: N/A
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Royal Australian Navy – Tally Band – HMAS Flinders.
HMAS Flinders (GS 312/A 312), named for Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), was a hydrographic survey ship of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
The ship was ordered in 1970 to replace the light survey vessel HMAS Paluma. Following the destruction of Darwin by Cyclone Tracy during the night of 24-25 December 1974, Flinders was deployed as part of the relief effort; Operation Navy Help Darwin. She sailed from Cairns on 26 December, and as the first ship to arrive, Flinders was tasked with surveying the harbour to work out the position of wrecks and the safest areas for the other RAN ships to anchor.
Flinders was decommissioned in 1998.
