HMS Resolution (09)
Videos
HMS Resolution was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in December 1916, Resolution saw no combat during the war as both the British an
Resolution in the Indian Ocean in 1942–1943
Sister ship Revenge's forward HACS Mk III director and its crew in 1940
Resolution and the rest of 1st Battle Squadron during the surrender of the German fleet on 21 November
At Spithead during a fleet review in 1937; the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee (foreground), Resolution (centre), and HMS Hood (background)
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
Videos
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria.
HMS Resolution (09)
…participated in the Battles of Narvik until German air attacks drove her off. In June 1940, the ship was transferred to Force H, where she took part in the destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir in July after the French surrender to Germany. She was also involved in the Battle of Dakar, an attempt to neutralise the French battleship Richelieu…
The battleship Strasbourg under fire
Modern view of the harbour at Mers El Kébir in Algeria
French photograph of the bombardment
Bretagne on fire, still under bombardment