HMS Resolution (1892)

HMS Resolution
HMS Resolution
History
United Kingdom
NameResolution
BuilderPalmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Cost£875,522, plus £78,295 for guns
Laid down14 June 1890
Launched28 May 1892
CompletedNovember 1893
Commissioned5 December 1893
Decommissioned8 August 1911
FateSold for scrapping, 2 April 1914
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeRoyal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement
Length410 ft 5 in (125.10 m) overall
Beam75 ft (23 m)
Draught27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Installed power9000 ihp
PropulsionTwin coal-fired Humphreys & Tennant 3-cylinder triple-expansion engines, two screws;
Speed15.7 knots max
Range2,780 nautical miles (5,149 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h); 4,720 nautical miles (8,741 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h)
Armament
Armour
  • Main belt: 14–18 in (356–457 mm)
  • Upper belt: 3–4 in (76–102 mm)
  • Forward Bulkheads: 16 in (406 mm)
  • After bulkhead: 14 in (356 mm)
  • Barbettes: 11–17 in (279–432 mm)
  • Casemates: 6 in (152 mm)
  • Conning Tower: 14 in (356 mm)
  • Deck: 2.5–3 in (64–76 mm)

HMS Resolution was a Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. The ship was built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, starting with her keel laying in June 1890. She was launched in May 1892 and, after completing trials, was commissioned into the Channel Squadron the following December. She was armed with a main battery of four 13.5-inch guns and a secondary battery of ten 6-inch guns. The ship had a top speed of 16.5 knots.

Resolution served with the Channel Squadron up to 1901; she took part in the Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review and a number of manoeuvres in the Atlantic and the Southwest Approaches. She was recommissioned as a coast guard ship later in 1901 and underwent a refit in 1903, after which she served at Sheerness as a port guard ship, before entering the Fleet Reserve at Chatham in June 1904. She suffered damage while participating in combined manoeuvres in 1906, and was recommissioned into the Special Service Division of the Home Fleet the following year. She was decommissioned in August 1911 and laid up at Motherbank for disposal, before being sold for scrap in April 1914 and towed to the Netherlands to be broken up the following month.

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