HMS Resolution (1771)

Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay by William Hodges, painted 1776, shows the two ships at anchor in Tahiti in August 1773.
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Resolution
BuilderThomas Fishburn, Whitby
Launched1770
AcquiredNovember 1771 as Marquis of Granby[1]
Renamed
  • Renamed HMS Drake in November 1771
  • Renamed HMS Resolution on 25 December 1771
FateUnknown, last sighted 5 June 1783. Fate disputed.
General characteristics
Class and typeex-mercantile collier
Tons burthen462 bm
Length
  • 110 ft 8 in (33.73 m) overall
  • 93 ft 6 in (28.50 m) keel
Beam30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Draught13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement112, including 20 marines[2]
Armament
  • 12 × 6-pdrs
  • 12 × 12-pdr swivels

HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific. She impressed him enough that he called her "the ship of my choice", and "the fittest for service of any I have seen".

  1. ^ Hough 1995, p. 219
  2. ^ Beaglehole 1959, pp. 3–5