HMS Resolution, Naval Prints and Naval Art Paintings
of Royal Navy Battleship HMS Resolution, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the Naval Art Company.
Built by Palmers, and launched
on the 14th January 1915. During World War, HMS Resolution took part in
the bombardment of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir in July 1940, In
September she was torpedoed and badly damaged by the French submarine
Beveziers. her repairs were carried out in the United States and
finished in September 1941. She served in the Indian Ocean but returned
home in poor condition and consigned to reserve fleet. She was scrapped
at Faslane on the 13th May 1948.
The pride of the British fleet, The Mighty Hood as she was known, was launched in 1918. Weighing in at over 40,000 tons she was 860 feet long and had eight 15 inch guns, at her launch she was more than a match for any adversary. Hood sailed the world in the inter-war years and was admired in every foreign port she visited, however with a lack of major refits in this time the second world war found the Hood unprepared for a major battle, On the 24th of May 1941 the German battleship Bismarck found Hoods achilles heel within only a few salvos, namely her inadequate deck armour. Hood exploded in a huge fireball from which only three sailors survived. Here HMS Hood is seen with Force H in the Mediterranean. Winston Churchill knew that the powerful French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir could fall into German hands at any time and that the threat had to be removed by any means. On the 3rd of July 1940 the French fleet was duly dispatched by Force H. The Strasbourg being the only French battl.........
Completed in 1916, the Resolution was one of the finest capital ships in the Royal Navy, serving in many theatres with her sister ships, Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Ramillies and Revenge, she is shown here in 1936.
Item Code : B0060
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Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm)
Artist : Ivan Berryman
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Launched in January 1915, the Revenge-class battleship HMS Resolution was to enjoy a 33 year career during which she served in the Atlantic, home and Eastern Fleets as well as serving repeated spells in the Mediterranean, being both bombed and torpedoed along the way. She is depicted off Gibraltar with HMS Wolverine, the destroyer perhaps best remembered for destroying the U-47 which sunk Resolutions sister ship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow.
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HMS Resolution at Gibraltar by Ivan Berryman. - Editions Available
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