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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. ==French Revolutionary Wars== ;Commander James Athol Wood ''Favourite'' was commissioned in March 1794 under Commander Charles White.〔Winfield (2008), p.253.〕 In September of the next year Commander James Athol Wood took command and sailed her for the Leeward Islands. ''Favourite''s first task was to assist in the quelling of insurrections on Grenada and St. Vincent.〔〔On Grenada Julien Fédon, a "free coloured" French-African planter, led a pro-French revolt between 1795 and 1796. On St. Vincent there was conflict between the British and the Black Caribs, who were led by defiant Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer. In 1796 British General Sir Ralph Abercromby put an end to the open conflict by crushing a revolt that the French radical Victor Hugues had instigated.〕 In support of these operations, Captain Robert Otway of had Wood patrol the waters to intercept vessels carrying provisions to the insurgents. On 5 February 1796 ''Favourite'' captured two French privateers and ran one ashore within the Bocas Islands between Trinidad and Venezuela. The largest privateer was the ''Général Rigaud'', of eight guns and 45 men, mostly Italians and Spaniards. The second privateer was the packet ship ''Hind'', which the ''Général Rigaud'' had taken off St. Vincent's. Her crew escaped before ''Favourite'' could take possession. The vessel that ran ashore was the ''Banan''. Less than a month later, on 1 March, ''Favourite'', the armed transport ''Sally'', and two large sloops that Wood commandeered, evacuated 11-1200 British troops from Sauteurs, where an insurgent force had trapped them. The next day Woods delivered the troops safely to St. George's.〔 A week later, on 9 March, ''Favourite'' encountered three vessels windward of Grenada. They were two French privateer schooners, one of 10 guns and one of 12, and a ship of 14 guns. After an all-day chase, ''Favourite'' was able to capture the ship without a fight; the two schooners escaped. The ship turned out to be the ''Susanna'', of Liverpool, which the privateers had captured a few days earlier and manned to also serve as a privateer. In all, ''Favourite'' ended up with 70 prisoners. Wood distributed most of them in two or three-man groups to the transports and merchant vessels of a convoy heading for Britain. The officers he put aboard .〔 On 22 July ''Mermaid'' and ''Favorite'' recaptured the sloop ''Two Sisters''. In November ''Favourite'' was enforcing a blockade of the port of Paramaribo.〔Williams (2009), p. 213.〕 In January 1797, Wood reconnoitered Trinidad for General Sir Ralph Abercromby. Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, commander-in-chief for the Navy in the Leeward Islands then had Wood draw up a plan for an attack.〔Ralfe (1828), pp.175-181.〕 The result was that in February, ''Favourite'' was at the capture of Trinidad. The flotilla sailed from Carriacou on 15 February and arrived off Port of Spain on the next day.〔 At Port of Spain they found a Spanish squadron consisting of four ships of the line and a frigate, all under the command of Rear-Admiral Don Sebastian Ruiz de Apodaca. Harvey sent ''Favourite'' and some of the other smaller ships to protect the transports and anchored his own ships of the line opposite the Spanish squadron. At 2am on 17 February the British discovered that four of the five Spanish vessels were on fire; they were able to capture the 74-gun ''San Domaso'' but the others were destroyed.〔〔The five Spanish ships were ''San Vincente'' (Captain Don Geronimo Mendoza; 84 guns), ''Gallardo'' (Captain Don Gabriel Sororido; 74 guns), ''Arrogante'' (Captain Don Raphael Benasa; 74 guns), ''San Damaso'' (Don Tores Jordan; 74 guns), and ''Santa Cecilia'' (Captain Don Manuel Urtesabel; 36 guns).〕 Later that morning General Sir Ralph Abercrombie landed the troops, with Wood, together with Captain Wolley of , superintending the landing.〔 The Governor of Trinidad, José Maria Chacón, surrendered the next day. ''Favourite'' shared with the rest of the flotilla in the allocation of £40,000 for the proceeds of the ships taken at Trinidad and of the property found on the island. On 27 March Wood received his promotion to post captain and command of ''San-Damaso''.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 24, pp.181-2.〕 He then sailed her to England as escort to a large convoy.〔 ;Lieutenant Lord Camelford Wood's replacement, in May 1797, was Commander S. Powell.〔 Some months later, in July, Commander James Hanson assumed command. Then Thomas Pitt, Lieutenant Lord Camelford, took command, replacing Hanson, who had taken ill.〔Mostert (2007), pp. 238-45.〕 Although Camelford was apparently appointed in January, he had been acting captain for some time. On 13 January 1798, Camelford shot and killed Lieutenant Charles Peterson, acting captain of ''Perdrix for mutiny, in a dispute over which of them was senior to the other. At the time, both vessels were in English Harbour, Antigua, serving as guardships. What triggered the dispute was the departure from the harbour on the previous day of , whose captain, Jemmet Mainwaring, had previously been the senior officer in the port. Peterson had been first lieutenant under Camelford for three months when Camelford had taken over ''Favourite'', even though Peterson was senior on the lieutenants list and represented Captain Fahie of ''Perdrix'', who was away in St. Kitts. The two ships' companies almost fired on each other when Camelford shot Petersen. Captain Henry Mitford of ''Matilda'' arrived that evening and put Camelford under arrest. Mitford put Lieutenant Parsons of ''Favourite'' in command of ''Perdrix'' and sent her out to sea. The subsequent court martial acquitted Camelford. ;Commander Joseph Westbeach In May 1799, Commander Joseph Westbeach took command and in July/August sailed her home with the trade. She then sailed in the North Sea.〔 On 15 January 1801, ''Favourite'' captured a cutter off Flamborough Head, after a seven-hour chase. The cutter proved to be the French privateer ''Voyageur'', of 14 guns and 47 men, under the command of Egide Colbert. Colbert was four days out of Ostend and the day before had captured the merchant vessel ''Camilla'', of Sunderland, which had been sailing in ballast. Two months later, on 13 March, ''Favourite'' chased a lugger for eleven hours from Scarborough before losing her. She then saw another sail, which she pursued and captured. She was the French privateer schooner ''Optimiste'', of Dunkirk, armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 47 men under the command of Jean Baptiste Corenwinder. Then on 17 April, ''Favourite'' captured a French privateer lugger off Plymouth after a four-hour chase. The lugger was the ''Antichrist'', armed with fourteen 2 and 9-pounder guns. She had a crew of 60 men under the command of Henry Alexandre Scorffery. She was 15 days out of Dunkirk and ''Favourite'' recaptured her sole prize, the ship ''Brotherly Love'', of South Shields, which had been sailing to London when she was captured. Between May 1803 and June 1804, ''Favourite'' underwent repairs at Sheerness.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Favourite (1794)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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