HMS Resolution (1758)

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Battle of Quiberon Bay: the Day After (Richard Wright, 1760) Resolution is on her starboard side in the foreground
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HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 December 1758 at Northam.[1]

On 20 November the following year, Resolution took part in the decisive Battle of Quiberon Bay captained by Henry Speke. Just before 4pm she took the surrender of the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[2] However, after a stormy night she was found the following morning to have run aground on the Four Shoal and dismasted.[3]

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Satellite image of the shoals of Quiberon Bay

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References

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  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. Template:ISBN.

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