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French ship Favorite

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ5502454 ↗
Source-derived summary

No less than 21 ships of the French Navy have borne the name Favorite (Favourite). Among them:

Favorite (1678), launched 1678, captured by the Dutch Navy in 1694

Favorite (1747), launched 1747, hulked 1757

Favorite (1810) (1810–1811), a 44-gun frigate destroyed at the Battle of Lissa

Favorite (Q195), an Aurore-class submarine launched in 1938.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “French ship Favorite” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through French, ship and Favorite, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1678, 1694, 1747, 1757—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, French, ship and Favorite is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5502454. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1678, 1694, 1747 and 1757.

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This entry incorporates text from “French ship Favorite” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.