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HMS Flora (1761) (1st)
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This the first ship to carry the name HMS Flora was a fifth
rate, 32-gun, ship. Originally French, captured 08-Jan-1761 by HMS Unicorn, 132ft long, 35t wide and of 698 tons builders measurement. Armed with 26 x 12pdr and 6 x 6pdr guns. Scuttled 07-Aug-1778 at Rhode Island to avoid capture. Salved by the Americans, and became the French privateer Flore 1784. Recaptured 07-Sep-1798 by HMS Phaeton and sold.
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