Five ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Flora'':
* HMS ''Flora'' was a
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
ordered in 1755 but later cancelled.
*
HMS ''Flora'' was a 32-gun
fifth rate, previously the French ship ''Vestale''. captured her in 1761 but the Royal Navy scuttled her in 1778 to avoid capture. The Americans salvaged her and she became a
letter of marque. The Americans sold her to the French and she became the French
privateer ''Flore'' in 1784. She was then recaptured by in 1798 and sold.
* was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1808. Because ''Flora'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the
Naval General Service Medal, which the
Admiralty
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*The rank of admiral
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issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.
* was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1844. She was on harbour service from 1851 and was sold in 1891.
* was an launched in 1893. She was renamed TS ''Indus II'' in 1915 and was sold in 1922.
*
HMS ''Flora'' was originally the iron screw
gunboat . ''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.
See also
*HM
Hired armed cutter
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Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Side cutter
* Cutter, a type of hydraulic rescue to ...
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Royal Navy ship names