HMS Favourite

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Favourite, or HMS Favorite:

HMS Favourite may have been a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740.

HMS Favourite was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1757 and sold in 1784.

HMS Favourite was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794. She was captured by the French in 1806 and renamed Favorite, but was recaptured by the British in 1807 and renamed HMS Goree. She became a prison ship in 1814 and was broken up in 1817.

HMS Favorite was a survey cutter purchased in 1805 and sold c. 1813.

HMS Favorite was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 and broken up in 1821.

HMS Favourite was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1829. She became a coal hulk in 1859 and was sold in 1905. She bore the name Favorite between 1836 and 1856, and was designated C3 and later C77 while in use as a coal hulk.

HMS Favorite was an ironclad screw corvette launched in 1864 and sold in 1886.

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HMS Favourite (W 119)

HMS Favourite (W 119) was a Favourite class tug of the Royal Navy during World War II.

Service History

Favourite was laid down on 25 October 1941 by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas as ATA-128. She was named Caddo on 9 March 1942 and resignated BAT-3 on 15 April 1942. BAT-3 was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 15 June 1942 as Favourite. She served through World War II with the Royal Navy and was returned to the United States Navy on 27 March 1946. Struck on 21 May 1946, the tug was renamed the Susan A. Moran and then Eugene F. Moran after being sold to the Moran Towing Corporation. In 1947, she was sold again and renamed Monsanto and then Monte Branco in 1975 after being reflagged as Portuguese. Monte Branco was deleted from Lloyd's Register in 1993 and scrapped at Setúbal.

References

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HMS Favourite (1794)

HMS Favourite (or Favorite) was a 16-gun Cormorant-class sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Rotherhithe. The French captured her in 1806 and renamed her Favorite. However, the British recaptured her in 1807 and renamed her HMS Goree. She became a prison ship in 1810 and was broken up in Bermuda in 1817.

French Revolutionary Wars

Favourite was commissioned in March 1794 under Commander Charles White. In September of the next year Commander James Athol Wood took command and sailed her for the Leeward Islands.

Favourite's first task was to assist in the quelling of insurrections on Grenada and St. Vincent. In support of these operations, Captain Robert Otway of Mermaid had Wood patrol the waters to intercept vessels carrying provisions to the insurgents.

On 5 February 1796 Favourite captured two French privateers and ran one ashore within the Bocas Islands between Trinidad and Venezuela. The largest privateer was the Général Rigaud, of eight guns and 45 men, mostly Italians and Spaniards. The second privateer was the packet ship Hind, which the Général Rigaud had taken off St. Vincent's. Her crew escaped before Favourite could take possession. The vessel that ran ashore was the Banan.

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