Given the historical significance of that name I'd have guessed she was in the RAN, but according to their site
listing all former ships, there's no mention of a
Flinders.
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Captain Matthew Flinders, RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.
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A little more digging and I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Flinders
She was commissioned in 1973 and decommissioned in 1998.