HMS Flora explained

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Flora:

• HMS Flora was a sloop 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 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.