HMS Resolution (1771)

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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.
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Resolution
Builder	Thomas Fishburn, Whitby
Launched	1770
Acquired	November 1771 as Marquis of Granby[1]
Renamed	Renamed HMS Drake in November 1771 Renamed HMS Resolution on 25 December 1771
Fate	Unknown, last sighted 5 June 1783. Fate disputed.
General characteristics
Class and type	ex-mercantile collier
Tons burthen	462 bm
Length	110 ft 8 in (33.73 m) overall 93 ft 6 in (28.50 m) keel
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Draught	13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	112, including 20 marines[2]
Armament	12 × 6-pdrs 12 × 1⁄2-pdr swivels

HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, 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".