In April 1823, a message in a bottle was found by the pilot boat Favorite in the Boston Bay, which told a story of piracy, which happened on the Euphrates when Captain Henshaw, bound for Charleston, South Carolina, left Cuba on March 5, 1823, and was captured by a pirate schooner Despaho.

[1][2] On November 9, 1826, the pilot boat Favorite took the passengers and crew that were on the sloop Native traveling from Bucksport, South Carolina for Boston, Massachusetts into town.

The schooner had struck the Devil's Back inside the Graves and then ran into the Broad Sound Channel, Boston, having lost her sails at night, filled with water and fell over.

[7] There are also reports of the pilot boat "Favorite" from New Bedford, Massachusetts that sailed in December 1848 to San Francisco, California, carrying four persons with Captain Wheldon.

5, left port and on Saturday, February 2nd met up with the brig Fashion, from Cienfuegos, Cuba and put on board the pilot William T. Beebe.

After witch, a government steamer from New-York, the City of Port-au-Prince, ran into and sunk the pilot boat Favorite on Tuesday, February 6, 1865, about 17 miles east southeast from Barnegat Lighthouse.

[13] The incident with the New York pilot boat Favorita was reported to the Office of the board of Commissioners of Pilotage of New Jersey, on January 2, 1866.