Favorite (IX-45): Photographs

S.S. Favorite Underway on the Great Lakes, probably in 1907 on builder's trials from Buffalo, N.Y. The flag flying over her bridge bears her name. The large letter "G" on her smokestack is for her owner, the Great Lakes Towing Co. Photo No. NH 100120 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
S.S. Favorite Pierside, probably at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1907 during builder's trials. Note her icebreaking bow. The flag flying over her bridge may be the one bearing her name shown in the photo above. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe
S.S. Favorite Possibly using her ice breaking capabilities to resupply a remote ice-bound location on the Great Lakes before World War I. Note the horse-drawn sleds and bundles of supplies alongside. Favorite became well known on the Great Lakes before World War I for the wide variety of missions she carried out, particulary salvage operations. Photo No. NH 107308 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
S.S. Favorite Righting S.S. Eastland in the Chicago River on 13 or 14 August 1915. Favorite is pumping out the large ballast tanks in her stern to raise the capsized hulk. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe
USS Favorite (ID-1385) At the Boston Navy Yard on 27 March 1918 being refitted for distant service in European waters. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-E
USS Favorite (ID-1385) At the Boston Navy Yard on 27 March 1918 being refitted for distant service in European waters. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-E
USS Favorite (ID-1385) Probably shown in convoy to France circa July 1918. Note the camouflage paint and the starboard 3-inch gun forward of the bridge. The port 3-inch gun, which is trained to port, is hard to see here, and the reported 3-inch AA gun is not visible. Photo No. NH 107022 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Favorite (ID-1385) Assisting in the salvage of the coastal transport USS Narragansett (ID-2196). which had run aground off the Isle of Wight on 31 January 1919. The two other visible salvage ships are probably British civilian craft. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe
S.S. Favorite In the Panama Canal during the 1920s while on loan from the Navy to the Panama Canal Commission for operation by its Mechanical Department. This photo is from a scrapbook assembled by a merchant marine engineer who captioned this view "The Favorite loaded with high blood pressure tourists" and added "Drat Em!" Some of these are visible on deck forward. Photo No. NH 105346 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
S.S. Favorite Shown in 1945 towing the center section of the Navy floating dock YFD-6 into the Pedro Miguel Locks in the Panama Canal enroute to the Pacific assisted by several Navy tugs. To get the 124-foot wide dock through the 110-foot wide canal locks, Navy SeaBees installed a thousand Navy pontoons on one of its wing walls and then careened it onto that side to pass through the canal. Photo No. 80-G-603482 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
S.S. Favorite In the Panama Canal in 1945 towing the floating dock YFD-6, which is out of this cropped view to the left. After a couple of years under Navy control, Favorite was once again being operated by the Canal's Mechanical Department. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
BAP Guardian Ríos The former Favorite in Peruvian Navy service. Called a submarine tender, she was operated by the Callao Port Authority. This official Peruvian Navy view was dated 1953. Photo No. None Source: Peruvian Navy, reproduced in Jane's Fighting Ships