HMS Resolution (1758)
HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 December 1758 at Northam.[1]
 Battle of Quiberon Bay: the Day After (Richard Wright, 1760) Resolution is on her starboard side in the foreground | |
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| Name | HMS Resolution |
| Ordered | 24 November 1755 |
| Builder | Bird, Northam |
| Laid down | December 1755 |
| Launched | 14 December 1758 |
| Commissioned | 23 March 1759 |
| Fate | Wrecked, 20 November 1759 during Battle of Quiberon |
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| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Dublin-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 15695⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 165 ft 6 in (50.44 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 46 ft 6 in (14.17 m) |
| Depth of hold | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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On 20 November the following year, Resolution took part in the decisive Battle of Quiberon Bay captained by Henry Speke. Just before 4pm she took the surrender of the French ship Formidable.[2] However, after a stormy night she was found the following morning to have run aground on the Four Shoal and dismasted.[3]
Satellite image of the shoals of Quiberon Bay
Notes
- Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
- Corbett, Julian S. (1907), England In The Seven Years War vol II, Longmans Green, p. 66
- Corbett p67
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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