History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Resolution |
Acquired | 1779 |
In service | 1779 |
Out of service | 1797 |
Fate | Foundered June 1797 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Tons burthen | 198 (bm) |
Sail plan | Cutter, later brig (1797) |
Complement | 60 (originally 70) |
Armament | 14 × 4-pounder guns + 10 × ½-pounder swivel guns |
HMS Resolution was a cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1779. She captured two French privateers in 1781 and a Dutch privateer in 1783 after a single ship action. Resolution captured one more small French privateer in June 1797; later that month Resolution went missing in the North Sea, presumed to have foundered.