HMS Flora
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Five ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Flora:
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have borne the name HMS Flora:
- HMS Flora was a sloopSloop-of-warIn the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
ordered in 1755 but later cancelled. - HMS Flora was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship Vestale. She was captured in 1761 by HMS UnicornHMS Unicorn (1748)HMS Unicorn was a 28-gun Lyme-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally ordered as a 24-gun ship to the draft of the French privateer Tyger. The third vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, the Unicorn, as well as which was a near-sister, were the first true frigates built...
and was scuttled in 1778 to avoid capture. She was salvaged and became the French privateerPrivateerA privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
Flore in 1784. She was then recaptured by HMS Phaeton in 1798 and sold. - HMS Flora was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1809.
- HMS Flora was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1844. She was on harbour service from 1851 and was sold in 1891.
- HMS FloraHMS Flora (1893)HMS Flora was an Astraea class cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 21 November 1893. She was constructed under the Naval Defence Act of 1889 along with several other Astraea class cruisers...
was an Astraea-class cruiserCruiserA cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...
launched in 1893. She was renamed TS Indus II in 1915 and was sold in 1922. - HMS Flora was originally the iron screw gunboatGunboatA gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...
HMS Griper. Griper was used for harbour service from 1905 and was renamed YC373. She was then renamed HMS Flora when she became a base ship in 1923. She was renamed HMS Afrikander in 1933 and was sold in 1937.