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]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Resolution.

Battle of Quiberon Bay: the Day After (Richard Wright, 1760) Resolution is on her starboard side in the foreground
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Resolution
Ordered: 24 November 1755
Builder: Bird, Northam
Launched: 14 December 1758
Fate: Wrecked, night of 20 November 1759
Notes:
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Dublin-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1569​5⁄94 (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
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

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
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
  2. Corbett, Julian S. (1907), England In The Seven Years War vol II, Longmans Green, p. 66
  3. 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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