Name HMS Favourite (W119) Commissioned 15 June 1942 Construction started 25 October 1941 Length 44 m | Laid down 25 October 1941 Struck 21 May 1946 Launched 17 February 1942 | |
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Builder Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas Fate Returned to the United States Navy, 1946 | ||
HMS Favourite (W 119) was a Favourite-class tug of the Royal Navy during World War II.
Service History
Favourite was laid down on 25 October 1941 by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas as ATA-128. She was named Caddo on 9 March 1942 and resignated BAT-3 on 15 April 1942. BAT-3 was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 15 June 1942 as Favourite. She served through World War II with the Royal Navy and was returned to the United States Navy on 27 March 1946. Struck on 21 May 1946, the tug was renamed the Susan A. Moran and then Eugene F. Moran after being sold to the Moran Towing Corporation. In 1947, she was sold again and renamed Monsanto and then Monte Branco in 1975 after being reflagged as Portuguese. Monte Branco was deleted from Lloyd's Register in 1993 and scrapped at Setúbal.