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".

HMS Resolution (1771), the vessel of Captain James Cook in his explorations. HMS Resolution (1779), a cutter purchased 1779; went missing in the North Sea June 1797, presumed to have foundered. [1] HMS Resolution (1892), a Royal Sovereign -class battleship in …

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."

Sloop of the Royal Navy, and the ship in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific. Began her career as the North Sea collier 'Marquis of Granby', launched at Whitby in 1770, and purchased by the Royal Navy in 1771. She was originally registered as HMS Drake, but was soon renamed Resolution in 1771.

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.

The Resolution was responsible for some remarkable feats and-was to prove one of the great ships of history. She was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle (17 January 1773) and crossed twice more on the voyage.

Under Cooks' command the Resolution crossed the Arctic Circle in August 1778, a crossing she later repeated, after Cook's untimely death, in July 1779 under the command of Charles Clerke. This final epic voyage eventually came to an end on her return to England on 4th October 1780.

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