Name: | RESOLUTION |
Type: | Battleship |
Keel: | 29/11/1913 |
Launched: | 14/01/1915 |
Completed: | 30/12/1916 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 838 |
Dimensions: | 29150disp - 33500disp, 580.0 x 102.4 x 28.25(draft)ft |
Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 40000shp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 23.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 4 x 2 x 15.0ins, 12 x 1 x 6.0ins, 4 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 8 x 2pdr AA guns; |
2 x 1 x 21ins torpedoes; 1 x aircraft, 1 x catapult | |
History: | |
30/12/1916 | British Royal Navy |
05/05/1948 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Revenge Class of Battleships |
25/09/1940: Torpedoed & damaged by French submarine BEVEZIERS | |
05/05/1948: Sold to Metal Industries for breaking up | |
13/05/1948: Arrived at Faslane for breaking up |
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