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Name: RESOLUTION
Type: Battleship
Keel: 14/06/1890
Launched: 28/05/1892
Completed: 05/12/1893
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 655
Dimensions: 14150disp - 15580disp, 380.0 x 75.0 x 27.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (40, 59 & 88 x 51ins), 9000ihp
Engines by: Humphreys, Tennant & Co, Deptford, London
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 17.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 13.5ins, 10 x 1 x 6.0ins, 16 x 1 x 6pdr, 12 x 1 x 3pdr guns;
7 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes
History:
05/12/1893 British Royal Navy
02/04/1914 Broken up
Comments: Member of the pre-Dreadnought Royal Sovereign Class of Battleships
Cost £953,817
08/08/1911: Stricken
02/04/1914: Sold for breaking up in The Netherlands. Cost £35,650


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Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo is courtesy of Wikipedia

Above photo is courtesy of Wikipedia

Above photo, showing RESOLUTION under tow to the breakers in 05/1914, is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo is courtesy of Wikipedia

Above photo is courtesy of Wikipedia

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 23/05/1892