HMS Resolution

Resolution in a gale by Willem van de Velde, the younger depicts the second HMS Resolution c. 1678

Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution. However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate Prince Royal (built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored, and instead the name Resolution was bestowed on the first of the vessels listed below:

• , a 50-gun Speaker-class frigate launched in 1654 as the Tredagh, was renamed Resolution in 1660 and destroyed after grounding by a Dutch fireship in the St James's Day Battle on 4 August 1666.
• , a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1667, rebuilt 1698, and foundered in 1703.
• , a 70-gun third rate launched in 1705 but run ashore to avoid capture in 1707.
• , a 70-gun third rate launched in 1708 and wrecked 1711.
• , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1758 but run aground and lost a year later at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.
• , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1770 and broken up in 1813.
• , the vessel of Captain James Cook in his explorations.
• , a cutter purchased in 1779 and foundered 1797.
• HMS Resolution - cutter in the West Indies, date of acquisition unknown and date of loss unknown. On 10 November 1800 Captain Peter Halkett of Apollo captured the Spanish sloop of war Resolution in the West Indies. She was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 149 men, under the command of Don Francisco Darrichena. Halkett reported that she was the former British navy cutter Resolution. Resolution was in such an irreparable state that after a few days Halkett destroyed her.
• , a battleship in service from 1893 to 1914.
• , a battleship in service from 1915 to 1944.
• , the lead ship of the Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines in service from 1966 to 1994.
• HMNZS Resolution (A-14), a United States Navy survey ship transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1996.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.