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HMS Resolution (09)

Battleship of the Royal Sovereign class


HMS Resolution in 1943.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeBattleship
ClassRoyal Sovereign 
Pennant09 
Built byPalmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd (Jarrow-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down29 Nov, 1913 
Launched14 Jan, 1915 
Commissioned7 Dec, 1916 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold on 5 May 1948 to Metal Industries, arrived at Faslane on 13 May 1948 for scrapping.

More information on HMS Resolution can be found at this website (offsite link).

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Charles Hugo Knox-Little, RN
22 July 1938 - November 1939

Capt. Oliver Bevir, RN
November 1939 – October 1940

Capt. Arthur Robert Halfhide, CBE, RN
October 1940 – June 1942

Capt. John Walter Durnford, RN
June 1942 - ???

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Capt. Royer Mylius Dick, CBE, DSC, RN
27 April 1944 - ???

HMS Resolution is not listed as active unit in the October 1944 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Resolution include:

16 May, 1940
HMS Resolution (Capt. O. Bevir, RN) is damaged by one 1000kg bomb during an attack by German Ju88 aircraft of II./KG 30 off Narvik. The bomb penetrated three decks before detonating.

9 Jul, 1940

This photograph show HMS Valiant (nearest to the camera) and HMS Resolution and is most likely taken during an Italian air attack (by SM 79 bombers) against Force H on 9 July 1940. The photograph is taken from HMS Enterprise.

Photograph with thanks to John Hancocks whose father Lt.(E) J.P. Hancocks served at HMS Enterprise during that time.

25 Sep, 1940
The Vichy-French submarine HMS Bévéziers (Lt.Cdr. Lancelot) torpedoes and damages the British battleship HMS Resolution (Capt. O. Bevir, RN) during the British / Free French attack on Dakar.

Resolution was hit on the port beam. She took a list of 12°. number 1 boiler room caught fire and the battleship lost all power and had to be taken in tow by HMS Barham. She was towed to Freetown where she arrived on 29 September. After temporary repairs there and at Gibraltar, she sailed for Portsmouth in March 1941. Later she went on the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the U.S.A. for full repairs which were completed in September / October 1941.

5 Apr, 1941
The British battleship HMS Resolution and the Polish destroyers Garland and Piorun escorted troop ships to Hvalfjord, Iceland. They arrived in Iceland on the 9th.


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