The ship Flora departed from Christiania on June 15th, 1849. She was carrying 187 passengers, most of them farmers from Biri, Gausdal and Ringsaker. She had an additional cargo of pit coal and iron from Gothenburg. The value of the cargo was 4000 Dollars. The passengers paid 22 Speciedaler a head, bread from day 10 included from when they boarded. When the ship had passed Færder in the Oslofjord with about 12 miles, the main mast broke. The Flora then had to return to her home port of Tønsberg to be repaired. She arrived at Tønsberg on June 19th. While at Tønsberg 5 of the emigrants from Hedemark went asore in a dingi and got drunk. On the way back to the ship they started a fight, with the result that the dingi capsized. They were lucky not to drown. By July 4th she was still docked at Tønsberg, and the passengers filed an official complaint. A court decision of August 8th stated that the passengers were in title of a compensation from the ship owner and Captain, Carl Bull. He also had to pay the legal process expenses of 48 Speciedaler.

In 1850 the Flora mastered by Carl Bull arrived at Quebec May 16th. We have not been able to establish if she was carrying emigrants or not on this voyage, most likely she was not.

In 1854 the Flora sailed with emigrants again, but this time she was mastered by Captain Henrich Thue. The ship departed from Christiania on March 30, and arrived to Quebec in June 4.

Because the National Archives of Canada [NAC] did not start the archiving of passenger lists before 1865, and the Norwegian emigration records did not start before 1867, there is no surviving passenger list for this voyage in any of those archives. Timeline to records.

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Sources:
- Passenger list 1849, New York - #1182 (Port of embarkation is wrongly listed as Gothenburg, probably due to the origin of the cargo)
- New York Daily Herald 1849.06.16
- Morgenbladet 1849.05.23
- Den Frimodige 1849.06.25
- Morgenbladet 1849.07.02
- The Evening Post (New York) 1849.08.21
- Christiania-Posten 1854.03.29