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Favorite (IX-45)
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 USS Favorite (ID #1385) (1918 - 1920)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - Alpha
 NABA
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Salvage clasp)
Bottom Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Favorite was transferred to the Government of Peru and commissioned into the Peruvian Navy as BAP Guardian Rios
Favorite Class Salvage Tug:
  • Built in 1907 by Buffalo Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, N,Y, for the Great Lakes Towing Co. of Cleveland, OH.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Completed in 1907
  • Purchased by the Navy, 23 January 1918
  • Commissioned, USS Favorite (ID #1385), 1 February 1918, Ensign W. F. Lakeman, USNRF, in command
  • Decommissioned, 3 April 1920 and turned over to the Department of Interior
  • Loaned to the Panama Canal, 1 July 1931
  • Returned to the Department of Interior, 24 October 1940
  • Reacquired by the Navy, 8 March 1941, designated Miscellaneous Unclassified IX-45
  • Turned over to the Panama Canal Mechanical Division, 1 November 1943
  • Returned to US Navy custody, 13 January 1948
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 19 February 1948
  • Transferred to Peru and renamed BAP Guardian Rios
  • Renamed Rios in 1954
  • Removed from the Peruvian Navy List in July 1958
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,160 t.
    Length 196'
    Beam 43'
    Draft 9'
    Speed14 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Armament three 3" guns
    Propulsion
    one vertical triple-expansion steam engine
    two Single-ended cylindrics boilers
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    Favorite 85k SS Favorite underway soon after her completion at Buffalo, New York, in 1907.
    US Navy photo # NH 100120 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
    Favorite 101k SS Favorite underway in the Panama Canal, circa 1920s with a group of tourists on deck.
    US Navy photo # NH 105346-A from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
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    DANFS history entry at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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