[4][a] In support of these operations, Captain Robert Otway of Mermaid had Wood patrol the waters to intercept vessels carrying provisions to the insurgents.
On 5 February 1796 Favourite captured two French privateers and ran one ashore within the Bocas Islands between Trinidad and Venezuela.
[5] Less than a month later, on 1 March, Favourite, the armed transport Sally, and two large sloops that Wood commandeered, evacuated 11-1200 British troops from Sauteurs, where an insurgent force had trapped them.
Wood distributed most of them in two or three-man groups to the transports and merchant vessels of a convoy heading for Britain.
Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, commander-in-chief for the Navy in the Leeward Islands then had Wood draw up a plan for an attack.
[9] At Port of Spain they found a Spanish squadron consisting of four ships of the line and a frigate, all under the command of Rear-Admiral Don Sebastian Ruiz de Apodaca.
At 2am on 17 February the British discovered that four of the five Spanish vessels were on fire; they were able to capture the 74-gun San Domaso but the others were destroyed.
[9] Favourite shared with the rest of the flotilla in the allocation of £40,000 for the proceeds of the ships taken at Trinidad and of the property found on the island.
On 13 January 1798, Camelford shot and killed Lieutenant Charles Peterson, acting captain of Perdrix for mutiny, in a dispute over which of them was senior to the other.
The cutter proved to be the French privateer Voyageur, of 14 guns and 47 men, under the command of Egide Colbert.
She was the French privateer schooner Optimiste, of Dunkirk, armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 47 men under the command of Jean Baptiste Corenwinder.
She was 15 days out of Dunkirk and Favourite recaptured her sole prize, the ship Brotherly Love, of South Shields, which had been sailing to London when she was captured.
She arrived at Funchal Roads on 12 October, having with Arab, convoyed the slave ship Andersons and some other vessels.
In December 1805 Favourite was at the Îles de Los, searching for a privateer at the behest of Captain Keith Maxwell of Arab.
Still it took three days during which the ship's crew had to man the sweeps and boats to tow her through water that was no more than three fathoms deep to reach entrance of the river.
Favourite's only casualty was one man lightly wounded, a passenger, Lieutenant Odhum of the Royal African Corps.
The French put Favourite's crew aboard Trio, a British slave ship they had captured before she could load any captives.
[24] The British brought Favorite into service as HMS Goree, though it took some time for the name change to register in the West Indies.
On 22 April 1808, Goree, under Commander Joseph Spear, engaged the French brigs Palinure and Pilade in an inconclusive action.
In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique" to all surviving claimants from the campaign.
That year Byng and Goree intercepted the schooner USS Revenge under Lieutenant Oliver Hazard Perry.
Also in 1811, Byng intercepted and took into Nassau the San Carlos, after determining from an inspection of her papers that she was "An American ship engaged in the African Slave Trade under Spanish Colours."
The court in Nassau released the San Carlos back to her owners as she had no slaves aboard and the charge rested only on Byng's belief that she had forged documents.
[29] After the start of the War of 1812, on 2 October, Goree captured the American ship Ranger, which was sailing from the Pacific to Nantucket with a valuable cargo.
There on 24 April 1814 eleven American prisoners of war overpowered their guards and escaped while having been taken ashore to gather water.
They boarded the schooner HMS Bermuda, overpowered the five men aboard her, and sailed her to Cape May, New Jersey, where they ran her aground and escaped.
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