Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay by William Hodges, painted 1776, shows the two ships at anchor in Tahiti in August 1773.

HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, the ship in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific. She impressed him enough that he called her "the ship of my choice", and "the fittest for service of any I have seen." Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay, painted by William Hodges in 1776, shows the two ships of Commander James Cooks second voyage of exploration in the Pacific at anchor in Tahiti in August 1773. ... Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay, painted by William Hodges in 1776, shows the two ships of Commander James Cooks second voyage of exploration in the Pacific at anchor in Tahiti in August 1773. ... Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, at 17°40′ S 149°30′ W. The island had a population of 169,674 inhabitants at the 2002 census. ... USS Constellation, a United States Navy sloop-of-war. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ...

She began her career as the North Sea collier Drake, launched at Whitby in 1770, was renamed Marquis of Granby, and purchased by the Royal Navy in 1772. She was fitted out at Deptford with the most advanced navigational aids of the day, including a Gregory Azimuth Compass, ice anchors and the latest apparatus for distilling fresh water from sea water. Twelve carriage guns and twelve swivel guns were carried. At his own expense Cook had brass door-hinges installed in the great cabin. Resolution cost the Admiralty £4,151. It was originally planned that the naturalist Joseph Banks with an appropriate entourage would sail with Cook, so a heightened waist, an additional upper deck and a raised poop deck were built to suit Banks. However, in sea trials the ship was found to be top-heavy and under Admiralty instructions, the offending structures were removed. Banks refused to travel under the resulting "adverse conditions" and was replaced by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, George. The conversion had cost a further £6,565. The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Collier may refer to: a bulk cargo ship that carried coal. ... Map sources for Whitby at grid reference NZ8910 Whitby is a historic town in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Deptford is an area of the London Borough of Lewisham, on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London. ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks (February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the English naturalist and botanist on Cooks first great voyage (1768-1771) and some 75 species bear Banks name. ... poop of a frigate Grand Turk In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that constitutes the roof of a poop cabin built in the aft (rear) part of the superstructure of a ship. ... Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 - December 9, 1798) was a Polish born naturalist of German descent. ... Portrait of Forster by J. H. W. Tischbein Johann Georg Adam Forster (November 26, 1754 - January 10, 1794) was a Polish-born botanical collector and artist of German descent. ...

When she sailed from Plymouth on July 13, 1772 with HMS Adventure, her complement totalled 112, including 20 volunteers who has sailed in Cook's first voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768–1771. On Resolution's second voyage (Cook's third voyage) she again carried 112. July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay by William Hodges, painted 1776, shows the two ships at anchor in Tahiti. ... Endeavour replica in Cooktown harbour HM Bark Endeavour was originally a small merchant collier named Earl of Pembroke, built in Whitby, North Yorkshire. ...

On his first voyage Cook had calculated longitude by the usual method of lunars but on her second voyage the Board of Longitude sent William Wales, a highly qualified astronomer, with Cook and entrusted a new chronometer, the K1, recently completed by Larcum Kendall, together with three chronometers made by John Arnold of Aldophi. Kendall's K1 was remarkably accurate and was to prove to be most efficient in determining longitude on board Resolution. Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... A chronometer is a clock designed to have sufficient long-term accuracy that it can be used as a portable time standard on a vehicle, usually in order to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. ...

On January 17, 1773, Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle and crossed twice more on the voyage. The third crossing, on February 3, 1774, was the most southerly penetration, reaching latitude 71°10′ South at longitude 106°54′ West. Resolution thus proved Alexander Dalrymple's Terra Australis Incognita to be a myth. On Cook's third voyage, Resolution crossed the Arctic Circle on August 17, 1778, and again crossed it on July 19, 1779, under the command of Charles Clerke after Cook's death. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Zoomable PDF of the map this is based on The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1774 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Alexander Dalrymple (July 24, 1737 - June 19, 1808 was a Scottish geographer. ... Terra Australis is the large continent on the bottom of the map Terra Australis (more completely Terra Australis Incognita, (the) unknown southern land) was an imaginary continent, appearing on European maps from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. ... The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1780, Resolution was converted into an armed transport and sailed for the East Indies in March 1781. She was captured by de Suffren's squadron on June 9, 1782. After the action at Negapatam on 6 July 1782, Resolution was sent to Manila for wood, biscuit and rigging, and to enter any seaman she found there. She sailed on July 22, 1782 and was never seen again. 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and South-East Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and... 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Statue of Suffren - Museum of the Navy, Toulon. ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Manila (Maynila in Filipino) is the capital city of the Philippines. ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

On June 5, 1783 de Suffren wrote that Resolution was last seen in the Sunda Strait, and that he suspected that she had either foundered or fallen into the hands of the English. An item from the Melbourne Argus, February 25, 1879, says that she ended her days as a Portuguese coal-hulk at Rio de Janeiro, but this has never been confirmed. Viscount Galway, a Governor-General of New Zealand, owned a ship's figurehead described as that of Resolution, but a photograph of it does not agree with the figurehead depicted in Holman's famous watercolour of her. June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Sunda Strait is the strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...

General Characteristics

• Lower deck length: 110 ft 8 in (33.73 m)
• Keel: 93 ft 6 in (28.50 m)
• Maximum beam: 35 ft (11 m)
• Draft: 13 ft (4.0 m)

See also

• HMS Resolution for other ships of this name.

Resolution in a gale by Willem van de Velde, the younger depicts the first Resolution c. ...

References

• Lincoln P. Paine, Ships of the World: an Historical Encyclopedia, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.