Seven ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
have borne the name HMS ''Favourite'', or HMS ''Favorite'':
* may have been a 14-gun
sloop 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, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoner of war, prisoners of war or civilian internees. Some prison ships were hulk (ship type), hulked. W ...
in 1814 and was broken up in 1817.
* was a survey
cutter
Cutter may refer to:
Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Cutter (hydraulic rescue tool)
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Pizza cutter
* Side cutter
People
* Cutter (surname)
* Cutt ...
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 Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal i ...
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 was a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by iron armour, steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or ince ...
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 sloo ...
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