Resolution HMS (1770)

[john sefton]

HMS Resolution.
3rd rate 72 guns, built Deptford Dockyard.
Launched 12 April 1770.
1612tn bm. L168' B47'.
Arm twentyeight 32pdr. Thirty 24pdr. Sixteen 9pdr guns.
Flagship of Admiral Murray.
Depicted being guided into anchorage by slave Pilot Jemmy Darrell, 1795.
Broken up March 1813.
T Broadley.
Bermuda SG380.

[hindle]

Is this the same ship as Captain Cook for his last two voyages, 1772-76 & 1776-80?

I know with the Endeavour there was an HMS Endeavour, so cook's ship became HM Bark Endeavour.

However, with the Resolution, Cook's ship has always been referred to as HMS Resolution.

I believe she was scuttled in a port in North America as part of the defences to the harbour.

Therefore is the launch date wrong, or were there two HMS Resolutions in the Royal Navy simultaneously?

Richard A. Hindle

[aukepalmhof]

Eleven ships have carried the name RESOLUTION in the Royal Navy, the vessel depict on this stamp issued by Bermuda is not Cook’s RESOLUTION.

She was built as 3rd Rate ship-of-the-line at the Deptford Dockyard for the Royal Navy.
16 September 1766 ordered.
June 1767 keel laid down
12 April 1770 launched as HMS RESOLUTION.
Tonnage 1,611 tons, dim. 168.6 x 46.11 x 19.9ft.
Armament: Lower deck 28 – 32 pdr, upper deck 28 – 18 pdr, quarter deck 14 – 9 pdr. and on the fore castle 4 – 9 pdr. guns.
Crew 600.
December 1770 commissioned under command of Captain William Hotham.

After commissioned sailed for the Falkland Islands.
Then as guard ship on the Medway.
March 1792 fitted out as a guard ship at Sheerness and Chatham, took part in the Spithead Review on 22 June 1773. Then she made a summer cruise.
1764 Was she guard ship at Portsmouth...
November 1777 in the Channel Fleet.
September 1778 a unit of Keppel’s Fleet.
December 1778 as flagship of Admiral Chaloner Ogle in Shuldham’s Squadron.
Summer 1779 a unit of Hardy’s fleet
08 January 1780 in the British attack on the Spanish Caracas Company ships off Finisterre.
16/17 January 1780 in action against Langara Squadron in the Battle of Cape St Vincent.
19 January 1780 came to the relief of Gibraltar.
February 1780 a unit of Digby’s fleet.
24 February 1780 took the 64 gun Le PROTÉE.
17 May 1780 sailed for North America where she arrived on 13 July 1780, after arrival joined the Graves’s Squadron.
November 1780 with Rodney’s fleet in the West Indies.
03 February 1781 at St Eustatius, West Indies.
29/30 April 1781 took part in the Battle of Martinique.
May 1781 with Drake’s Squadron at Tobago.
August 1781 joined Hood’s Squadron bound for North America.
05 September 1781 in the Battle of Chesapeake, after the battle she returned to the West Indies.
12 April 1782 took part in the Battle of the Saints.
19 April 1782 under command of Captain Sir James Wallace tool part in the Action in the Mona Passage.
July 1782 in Rodney’s fleet sailed home, after arrival paid off.
Under repair and fitting out at Portsmouth from March 1783 till July 1784.
July 1793 recommissioned under command of Captain James Cumming.
1794 Under command of Captain Francis Pender and flagship of Rear-Admiral George Murray.
18 May 1794 sailed for Halifax.
July 1797 under command of Captain William Lechmere as flagship of Vice-Admiral George Vandeput based at Halifax.
October 1798 paid off.
July 1799 recommissioned a unit of the Channel Fleet.
1801 Bantry mutiny.
1802 Paid off.
January 1806 recommissioned.
December 1806 till February 1807 took part in the Copenhagen expedition.
January 1807 sailed for Portugal and the Mediterranean.
1810 took part in the Scheldt operations.
1810 Under command of Captain Temple Hardy in the Baltic.
1812 In Ordinary at Portsmouth.
March 1813 broken up at Portsmouth.

Source: British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 by Rif Winfield. Internet.