68x68mm Square full colour printed magnet MATTHEW FLINDERS, TRIM the CAT & the sloop NORFOLK’. 100% Tasmanian Made. (c) Annie Fitz [The White Range – Full Colour Printed Art Magnets]
Trim (1799–1804) was a ship’s cat which accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803.
Governor Hunter put the sloop Norfolk under the command of Matthew Flinders, the Sailing Master Peter Hibbs (seaman formerly on the “Sirius”). The vessel was to be used as a survey vessel and in that capacity was used by Flinders and Bass in 1798-99 to circumnavigate Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) – proving the existence of Bass Strait.
