HMS Favourite (1794)

Favourite
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Favourite
Ordered18 February 1793
BuilderRandall & Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid downApril 1793
Launched1 February 1794
CompletedBy 14 May 1794
CapturedBy the French on 6 January 1806
France
NameFavorite
Acquired6 January 1806 by capture
Captured27 January 1807, by the Royal Navy
United Kingdom
NameHMS Goree
Acquired27 January 1807
ReclassifiedPrison ship in 1813/14
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinque"[1]
FateBroken up in 1817
General characteristics [2]
Class and type16-gun Cormorant-class sloop
Tons burthen4268894 bm
Length
  • 108 ft 5 in (33.0 m) (overall)
  • 90 ft 8+14 in (27.6 m) (keel)
Beam29 ft 9 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold9 ft (2.7 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planSloop
Complement
  • British service:121
  • French service:150
Armament
  • Originally:16 × 6-pounder guns + 12 × ½-pounder swivel guns
  • French capture:18 × 6-pounder guns + 11 × 12-pounder carronades
  • British capture:16 × 6-pounder guns + 13 × 12-pounder carronades

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.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 242.
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 253.