HMS Resolution (1758)

	Battle of Quiberon Bay: the Day After (Richard Wright, 1760) Resolution is on her starboard side in the foreground
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Resolution
Ordered	24 November 1755
Builder	Bird, Northam
Launched	14 December 1758
Honours and; awards	list error: mixed text and list (help); Participated in: Battle of Quiberon Bay;
Fate	Wrecked, night of 20 November 1759
General characteristics
Class and type	Dublin-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1569 tons (1594.2 tonnes)
Length	165 ft 6 in (50.44 m) (gundeck)
Beam	46 ft 6 in (14.17 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full rigged ship
Armament	list error: mixed text and list (help); 74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs; Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs;

HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 December 1758 at Northam.^[1]

On 20 November the following year, Resolution took part in the decisive Battle of Quiberon Bay captained by Henry Speke. Just before 4pm she took the surrender of the French ship Formidable.^[2] However after a stormy night she was found the following morning to have run aground on the Four Shoal and dismasted.^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
^ Corbett, Julian S. (1907), England In The Seven Years War vol II, Longmans Green, p. 66
^ Corbett p67

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p176-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.

[2] Corbett, Julian S. (1907), England In The Seven Years War vol II, Longmans Green, p. 66

[3] Corbett p67

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