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| Name | Flora (1844) | Explanation | |
| Type | Fifth rate | ||
| Launched | 11 September 1844 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1634 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 36 | ||
| Fate | 1891 | ||
| Class | Pique | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1851 h.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 1 February 1866 - 24 September 1866 | Commanded by Captain Joseph Grant Bickford, guardship, Ascension | ||
| 10 December 1866 - 21 December 1868 | Commanded (until paying off) by Captain Arthur Wilmshurst, guardship, Ascension, and Governor of Ascension (until sent home for court-martial) | ||
| 28 July 1869 - 20 November 1872 | Commanded by Commander Edward Francis Kerby, guardship, Ascension | ||
| 25 December 1873 - 25 April 1877 | Commanded by Commander Clayton Mitchell, Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 13 December 1869 | Her Majesty’s ships in Simon’s Bay were the screw steam corvette Rattlesnake, 17, Commodore William M. Dowell, C.B., and the receiving ship Seringapatam. The screw steam corvette Juno, 6, Captain Edward Hardinge, left for England October 25. The Rattlesnake was to leave about the middle of November for the West Coast. At Ascension the Flora, 10, Commander Kirby; the double screw composite gun-vessel Lynx, 4, Commander James W. East; and the iron screw steam storeship Industry, 2, Commander Robert L. Cleveland. The Lynx had lately returned from the Niger expedition, and was unable to proceed on any service, so many of her crew being in the hospital. Most of them were doing well, but others would have to be invalided. The Lynx would remain at Ascension for the arrival of the Commodore, and then probably proceed to tho Cape. Her Majesty’s ship Sirius, 6, Captain Miller, and the double-screw composite gun-vessel Growler, 4, Captain Seymour, were in the Bight of Benin. The double-screw composite gun-vessel Fly, 4, was on the South Coast. Commander Boyer having been obliged to go to Ascension for hospital treatment, Lientenant Charles J. Hives was in charge. The screw steam gun-vessel Myrmidon, 4. Acting Commander Henry H. Alleyne,was on her way to the Cape. | ||
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