HMS Resolution (1892)

HMS Resolution
History
United Kingdom
Name	Resolution
Builder	Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Cost	£875,522, plus £78,295 for guns
Laid down	14 June 1890
Launched	28 May 1892
Completed	November 1893
Commissioned	5 December 1893
Decommissioned	8 August 1911
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 2 April 1914
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	14,190 long tons (14,420 t), 15,580 long tons (15,830 t) full load
Length	410 ft 5 in (125.10 m) overall
Beam	75 ft (23 m)
Draught	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Installed power	9000 ihp
Propulsion	Twin coal-fired Humphreys & Tennant 3-cylinder triple-expansion engines, two screws;
Speed	15.7 knots max
Range	2,780 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	2 × twin 13.5 in (343 mm) guns 10 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 10 × single 6-pdr (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 12 × single 3-pdr (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns 6 × 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes (2 submerged)
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.