Class and type Repair ship Ordered 16 February 1927 Construction started August 1927 Length 162 m Displacement 11.16 million kg | Name HMS Resource Laid down August 1927 Launched 27 November 1928 Weight 12,500 tons Draft 6.81 m | |
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Motto Passim Ut Orim 'Everywhere as of yore' Fate Scrapped from February 1954 | ||
HMS Resource was a fleet repair ship of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs and launched in 1928. The ship served in two theatres during the Second World War.
Resource was fitted with four three-drum Admiralty boilers, giving her a top speed of 15 knots (28 km/h). She was armed with four 4" guns. Her complement varied throughout her career, from a peacetime complement of 581, rising in wartime. She displaced 12,300 tons.
She served in the Mediterranean from 1939 until 1944, except in early 1940 when she spent a small amount of time at Freetown. She served in the Eastern Fleet from 1944, and was scrapped at Inverkeithing in February 1954.
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