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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Resolution.

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]

Satellite image of the shoals of Quiberon Bay

Notes

  1. ^ a b 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

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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