FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
410ft 5in oa x 75ft x 27ft 6in (125m oa x 22.8m x 8.4m)
Armament:
4-13.5in (343mm) 67-ton (2x2);
10-6in (152mm) (10x1); 10-6pdr (10x1); 12-3pdr (12x1); 6-18in Torpedo Tubes (4 above water, 2 underwater) HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign-class battleship). ... The White Ensign of the Royal Navy. ...
Armour:
Belt 18in (457mm) compound, deck 3in (76mm), turret 17in (432mm)
HMS Resolution was a Royal Sovereign-classbattleship of the Royal Navy. The Royal Sovereign class was an eight-ship class of pre-Dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy. ... HMS Victory in 1884 In naval history, battleships were the most heavily armed and armored warships afloat. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Resolution in a gale by Willem van de Velde, the younger depicts the second HMSResolution c.
The first Resolution was the Tredagh, launched in 1653, of 66 cannon, renamed Resolution in 1660 and destroyed after grounding by a Dutch fireship in the St James's Day Battle on 4 August 1666.
The eighth Resolution was a cutter purchased in 1779 and foundered 1797.
HMS Revenge was the name ship of the Revenge class of battleships of the Royal Navy, the ninth to bear the name.
Revenge was the only ship of her class to actually be operational for the battle of Jutland, where she was under the command of Captain E. Revenge was stationed at Constantinople and the Dardanelles throughout her deployment to that region.
HMS Revenge, built at a cost of £4,000 at the Royal Dockyard of Deptford in 1577 by Mathew Baker, Master Shipwright, was to usher in a new style of ship building that would revolutionize naval warfare for the next three hundred years.
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