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 |
Launched: | 14 December 1758 |
Fate: | Wrecked, night of 20 November 1759 |
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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]
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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
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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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