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, showing RESOLUTION under tow to the breakers in 05/1914, is courtesy of Kevin Blair
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Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 23/05/1892