HMS Resolution (1915)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Laid down: November 29, 1913
Launched: January 14, 1915
Commissioned: December 30, 1916
Status: Sold for scrap on May 5, 1948
General Characteristics
Displacement: 29,150 tons standard; 33,500 tons full load
Length: 620 ft 5 in (189 m) overall, 614 ft 5 in (187 m) waterline
Beam: 102 ft 5 in (31 m)
Draught: 30 ft 5 in (9.3 m) max
Propulsion: 4 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 18 Yarrow boilers, 40,000 shp (30 MW)
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h)
Capacity: 3,400 tons oil fuel; 160 tons coal
Complement: 1,009 to 1,146
Armament: Eight 15 inch (381 mm) guns in 4 twin mount turrets
Twelve 6 inch (152 mm) guns
Eight 4 inch (102 mm) anti-aircraft guns
Four 2 pounder (907 g) pom-poms
Sixteen Bofors 40 mm guns
Armour: Main Side Belt: 13.0 in (330 mm) midship, 6 to 4 in (152 to 102 mm) ends
Deck Armour up to 5 in (127 mm)
Turrets 13 in (330 mm) face, 5 in (127 mm) sides, 5 in (127 mm) roof
Barbettes up to 10 in (254 mm)
Citadel 11 in (279 mm)

HMS Resolution was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Palmers of Jarrow on November 29, 1913, launched on January 14, 1915, and commissioned on December 30, 1916.

She was bombed at Narvik in May 1940, took part in the destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, was torpedoed at Dakar in September 1940 by the Bévéziers[1], and served in the Indian Ocean during 1942 and 1943. She became a stokers training ship in 1944 and was sold for scrap on May 5, 1948.

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  1. ^ SOUS-MARINS CLASSE DES 1 500 TONNES

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Revenge-class battleship
Revenge | Royal Sovereign | Ramillies | Resolution | Royal Oak
Preceded by: Queen Elizabeth class - Followed by: N3 class (planned)

List of battleships of the Royal Navy
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