HMS Resolution (09)

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HMS Resolution (09)
Revenge class
HMS resolution
HMS resolution
Overview
Type Battleship
Shipyard

Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company , Jarrow

Keel laying November 29, 1913
Launch January 14, 1915
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning December 30, 1916
Whereabouts Scrapped in 1948
Technical specifications
displacement

Normal: 29,150 ts
Maximum: 33,500 ts

length

Water line : 187 m
over all: 189 m

width

before conversion: 27 m
after conversion: 31.2 m

Draft

9.3 m (30 ft 5 ")

drive

4 sets of steam turbines
with Parson gears
18 Yarrow steam boilers
40,000 shp (30 MW)

speed

originally 23 kn (approx. 43 km / h)

Range

4,000 nm (7,400 km)

Bunker quantity

3,400 tons of oil, 160 tons of coal

Armament

8 × 381 mm (15  in )
12 × 152 mm (6 in)
8 × 102 mm (4 in) Flak
16 × 40 mm Bofors
4 × 20 mm Oerlikon Fla- MK

Armor

Belt: 330 mm
Deck: up to 127 mm
Towers: 330 mm
Command post: 254 mm
Citadel: 152 mm

The HMS Resolution (ID: 09) was a battleship of the Revenge class . She served in the Royal Navy , where she was the tenth ship of that name . It was completed too late for use in the First World War , but was used for another 30 years, but only slightly modified.

Future enemies peacefully united: the HMS Hood in the background, the HMS Resolution in the middle , and the German Admiral Graf Spee in the foreground. They anchor on the occasion of the coronation of King George VI. in Portsmouth in May 1937 .

On January 10, 1924, the resolution collided during an exercise ten miles off the Isle of Portland with the submerged submarine L24 . The collision resulted in the submarine sank with its entire 48-man crew. A memorial has been erected in St. Ann's Church in Portsmouth to commemorate this accident .

During the Second World War , the Resolution was used , like its sister ships, for escort security and for coastal bombardments. The ship was damaged several times. On May 18, 1940, the resolution off Narvik , was attacked by Junkers Ju 88 of Group II of Kampfgeschwader 30 and hit by a 1,000 kg bomb. Although the bomb penetrated three decks, it caused relatively little damage, which is why the resolution was also able to participate in Operation Catapult in July of that year. During this attack, two British units shelled the port of Mers-el-Kébir in order to prevent the French ships lying there from access by the German navy.

A much more serious event took place on September 25 that year when the resolution and its task force shelled the port of Dakar as part of Operation Menace . The Vichy-French submarine Bévéziers attacked the battleship with torpedoes off Dakar . A torpedo hit and caused a water ingress that caused the ship to heel 12 ° . In addition, a fire broke out in the boiler room, causing the machinery to fail. The Resolution had to be towed by HMS Barham to Freetown and was not fully operational again until October 1941.

In 1942 the resolution was moved to the Indian Ocean . From 1944 until the end of the war it served as a training ship , after which it was sold to scrap dealers and from May 1948 was scrapped in Faslane-on-Clyde .

Web links

Commons : HMS Resolution  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the Sea War 1939–1945, May 1940. Retrieved on July 13, 2017 .