Seven ships of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

have borne the name HMS ''Favourite'', or HMS ''Favorite'': * may have been a 14-gun

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

launched in 1740. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1757 and sold in 1784. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794. The French captured her in 1806 and renamed her ''Favorite'', but the British recaptured her in 1807 and renamed her HMS ''Goree''. She became a

prison ship A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. While many nation ...

in 1814 and was broken up in 1817. * was a survey cutter purchased in 1805 and sold c. 1813. * was an 18-gun broken up in 1821. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1829. She became a

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

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. * was an

ironclad An ironclad is a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by Wrought iron, iron or steel iron armor, armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships ...

screw

corvette A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...

launched in 1864 and sold in 1886.

Other

On 10 March 1806 the ''Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy'' offered "His Majesty's Schooner Favorite", "lying at Portsmouth", for sale. It is not clear what vessel this was.

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