HMS Resolution (1892)

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HMS Resolution
Career Royal Navy Ensign
Laid down:
Launched: 28 May 1892
Commissioned: December 1893
Status: scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement: 14,190 t; 15,580 t full load
Length: 410 ft 5 in oa (125 m oa)
Beam: 75 ft (22.8 m)
Draught: 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m)
Propulsion: Twin coal-fired Humphreys & Tennant 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, two screws; 9000ihp = 15.7 kt max
Speed:
Complement: 712
Armament: 4-13.5 in (343 mm) 67-ton (2 × 2);

10-6 in (152 mm) (10 × 1); 10-6 pdr (10 × 1); 12-3 pdr (12 × 1);

6-18 in Torpedo Tubes (4 above water, 2 underwater)
Armour: Belt 18 in (457 mm) compound, deck 3 in (76 mm), turret 17 in (432 mm)

HMS Resolution was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Resolution was commissioned at Portsmouth in December 1893 and served in the Channel Squadron. She was eventually scrapped on 2 April 1914.


Royal Sovereign-class battleship
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