Seven ships of the
Royal Navy 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 in 1814 and was broken up in 1817.
* was a survey
cutter
Cutter may refer to:
Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Side cutter
* Cutter, a type of hydraulic rescue to ...
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 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
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screw
corvette
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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.
Citations
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Royal Navy ship names