HMS Resolution (1779)

History
UK
Name: HMS Resolution
Acquired: 1779
In service: 1779
Out of service: 1797
Captured:
  • June 1797
  • Recaptured 10 November 1800
General characteristics
Sail plan: Cutter
Complement: 149
Armament: 18 guns

HMS Resolution was a cutter purchased by the Royal Navy in 1779.[1] She went missing in the North Sea in June 1797, presumed to have foundered.[1]

She was recommissioned in October 1792 and placed under the command Edward H. Columbine. She participated in Hotham's action , 3 July 1795.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Hepper (1994), p.84.
  2. ↑ Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 - 1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing.
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