HMS Resolution (1892)
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HMS Resolution
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| Name: | HMS 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 |
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| Class and type: | Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 14,190 t; 15,580 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) |
| Complement: | 712 |
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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.
The Royal Sovereign-class battleships were based on Admiral-class barbette ships, but contained several alterations. The freeboard was raised, the barbettes' armour was extended and an upper belt and secondary armour were added. They could also obtain a higher speed, but were 4,000 tonnes larger. Resolution was 410 feet (120 m) long overall and had a beam of 75 ft and a draft of 27 ft 6in. She displaced up to 15,580 tonnes at her full combat load. Her propulsion system consisted of two 3-cylinder triple expansion engines powered by eight coal-fired cylindrical boilers. With natural draught, her engines provided a top speed of 15.5 knots at 9,000 indicated horsepower; 16.5 knots at 11,000 indicated horsepower could be obtained with forced draught. She had a maximum complement of 712 officers and enlisted men, although her crew in 1903 amounted to 672 people. When built, ships of the Royal Sovereign class rolled too heavily under certain conditions. Bilge keels were added to compensate for the problem, and the ships "proved to be excellent seaboats quite capable ... of maintaining high speeds in a seaway". The ships were well-constructed and probably the most substantial built for the Royal Navy, even if they "suffered ... from excessive weight and fittings." In the view of the maritime historian R. A. Burt, they were "highly successful; at that time, they were probably unequalled in all-round fighting efficiency."
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