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| Name | Favourite (1829) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 21 April 1829 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 434 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 18 | ||
| Fate | 1905 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1836 = Favorite. 1859 c.h. 18?? = C.3. 18?? = C.77 | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 29 August 1833 - 9 January 1837 | Commanded by Commander George Rodney Mundy in Mediterranean | ||
| 29 August 1837 - 20 June 1840 | Commanded by Commander Walter Croker, East Indies, untill Croker was killed in fighting on the Friendly Islands | ||
| 25 June 1840 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Ross Sulivan, East Indies | ||
| (October 1843) | Out of commission at Devonport | ||
| 13 March 1846 | Commanded by Commander Alexander Murray, west coast of Africa | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Sa 24 December 1842 | The Hyacinth, 18, Commander G. Goldsmith; Herald, 26, Captain Joseph Nias; Modeste, 18, Commander R. Watson; Favourite, 18, Commander Thomas Sullivan; Columbine, 16, Commander W.H.A. Morshead; Chamelion, 10, Lieutenant Commander G. Hunter; and the Algerine, 10, Lieutenant Commander W.H. Maitland, forming part of the squadron now in China and the East Indies, are under orders to proceed to England, as soon as the arrangements entered into between this country and China are perfected. Most of these ships have been in commission five years, and some of them nearly six. | ||
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