Name HMS Resolution Builder Bird, Northam | Ordered 24 November 1755 Launched 14 December 1758 | |
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Fate Wrecked, night of 20 November 1759 Notes Participated in
Battle of Quiberon Bay Class and type Dublin-class ship of the line | ||
HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 December 1758 at Northam.
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 French ship Formidable. However after a stormy night she was found the following morning to have run aground on the Four Shoal and dismasted.
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