class pre dreadnought battleship royal_navy ship built starting keel laying june launched completing trials commissioned following december armed main battery inch guns secondary battery inch guns ship speed knots resolution served took number manoeuvres atlantic recommissioned coast guard ship later underwent refit served port guard ship entering chatham june suffered damage participating combined manoeuvres recommissioned home fleet following year decommissioned august laid disposal sold scrap april towed netherlands broken following month design class battleships based admiral class barbette ships contained alterations raised barbettes armour extended upper belt secondary armour added obtain higher speed tonnes larger resolution feet long overall beam draft displaced tonnes combat load propulsion system consisted cylinder triple expansion engines powered coal fired cylindrical boilers natural draught engines provided speed knots indicated horsepower knots indicated horsepower obtained forced draught maximum complement officers enlisted men crew amounted people built ships royal sovereign class rolled heavily certain conditions added compensate problem ships proved excellent capable maintaining high speeds ships constructed probably substantial built royal_navy suffered excessive weight fittings view maritime historian highly successful time probably round fighting efficiency resolution armed breech loading inch guns barbettes armour ranging inches thickness resolution carried quick fire inch guns mounted casemates main deck plus sixteen pounder hotchkiss guns pounder hotchkiss guns equipped seven inch torpedo tubes submerged pounder guns removed upper tops water torpedo tubes removed remaining inch guns upper deck mounted inch armoured casemates armour supplied builders waterline belt long deep armour varied thickness inches bulkheads protected inches armour middle deck covering belt inches thick lower deck forward aft belt inches thick upper belt middle main decks coated inches armour casemates inch guns protected equal thickness armour conning tower protected inch armour forward inches armour aft ship armoured deck inches thick operational history resolution built cost plus guns laid june launched completed following november underwent trials december commissioned portsmouth december year service early august resolution unit fleet red annual manoeuvres held recommissioned channel_fleet service april july collided sister ship suffering slight plating keel damage nonetheless took annual manoeuvres july july time south west coasts england ireland fleet june resolution diamond jubilee queen_victoria july august participated annual manoeuvres atlantic fleet summer took annual manoeuvres late july early august time fleet paid portsmouth october placed reserve recommissioned serve coast guard ship officers crew previous april paid reserve undergo refit resolution recommissioned january relieve battleship port guard ship june transferred chatham summer took manoeuvres suffered slight damage collided sister ship near tongue july later year underwent refit chatham february resolution transferred remained service august laid awaiting disposal april resolution sold scrap following month towed netherlands broken gallery
HMS Resolution (1892)