HMS Favourite (1794)

Favourite
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Favourite
Ordered	18 February 1793
Builder	Randall & Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down	April 1793
Launched	1 February 1794
Completed	By 14 May 1794
Captured	By the French on 6 January 1806
France
Name	Favorite
Acquired	6 January 1806 by capture
Captured	27 January 1807, by the Royal Navy
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Goree
Acquired	27 January 1807
Reclassified	Prison ship in 1813/14
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinque"[1]
Fate	Broken up in 1817
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	16-gun Cormorant-class sloop
Tons burthen	42688⁄94 bm
Length	108 ft 5 in (33.0 m) (overall) 90 ft 8+1⁄4 in (27.6 m) (keel)
Beam	29 ft 9 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Sloop
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.