HMS Seaflower

For the English sailing ship of the 1600s, see Seaflower (ship).

Four vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Seaflower:

• HMS Seaflower (1782) was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in April 1782 that the French frigate Manche, under Jean Dornal de Guy, captured near Bencoolen on 29 September 1808.
• HMS Seaflower was a 16-gun brig-sloop listed in 1809, and sold on 1 September 1814.
• HMS Seaflower (1830) was a 4 gun cutter launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 20 May 1830 and broken up at Charlton, scrapping completed on 8 October 1866.
• HMS Seaflower (1873) was an 8 gun training brig, launched at Pembroke Dockyard on 25 February 1873. Converted to a floating workshop in January 1904, the ship was sold at Charlton on 7 April 1908.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC   67375475.