HMS Resolute (1855)
HMS Resolute (1855)


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NameResolute (1855)Explanation
TypeStoreship   
Launched19 February 1855
HullIron
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure1593 tons
Displacement 
Guns 
Fate1877
Class 
Ships bookADM 135/4
Note1857 Adventure, troopship
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
16 February 1857Renamed Adventure
20 April 1857
- 10 May 1861
Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Edward Lacy
21 April 1862
- 25 November 1863
Commanded by Commander Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge, troopship
17 November 1863
- 25 February 1864
Commanded by Commander Charles Thomas Curme
5 March 1864
- 27 May 1867
Commanded by Captain Charles Lodowick Darley Waddilove
21 January 1867
- 24 July 1868
Commanded by Captain Henry Dennis Hickley, China
22 June 1868
- 18 May 1871
Commanded by Captain Henry James Raby
23 September 1871
- 28 September 1872
Commanded by Commander Joseph Edward Maitland Wilson
29 May 1874
- 11 August 1875
Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham until paying off at Chatham) by Captain John D'Arcy
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Th 5 February 1857The iron steam troopships Transit, Resolute, and Assistance, are in an advanced state for re-commission at Portsmouth.
Tu 17 March 1857Artificers are employed from 5 in the morning until 10 at night in Portsmouth dockyard, to equip the gunboat squadron for China enumerated yesterday as fitting out at Portsmouth, and also the troopships and frigate Transit, Assistance, Adventure, and Furious. The Transit is so far complete that the was swung in Portsmouth harbour yesterday for the adjustment of her compasses, and the others are all well forward. The experienced hands of the ordinary flagship St. Vincent, Captain Eliott, and the steam reserve depôt ship Blenheim, Captain the Hon. F.T. Pelham, C.B., are helping in the rigging and fitting departments.
We 29 April 1857Her Majesty's ship Transit, having the 90th Regiment on board for China, has put in at Corunna in "deep distress." Our Portsmouth correspondent had a letter, from which the following is an extract, placed in his hands yesterday for publication:-

"Her Majesty’s ship Transit, Corunna, April 19.
"Here we are! Done up ! Two days' 'Bay' weather sent us in here to be fresh rigged; you never saw a worse sea boat in your life, — crank, top-heavy, and everything that’s bad! We have everything we could wish in the way of provisions, — only two days' salt since we came on board; — but such an old tub you never saw; the rigging never set up, or anything secured; we had hard work to keep the masts from going over the side; if she had pitched instead of rolling I am sure the foremast must have gone over the bows. We had to get tackles across the decks from side to side to brace the rigging in to save the spars; in fact, a greater tub to roll I never knew. She is topheavy. I am certain she will never weather the Cape, or she will deceive all on board, both soldiers and blue-jackets. She is a disgrace to the British Government, and more so to the dockyard authorities. If she is lost I only hope my diary will be found to condemn those who sent her to sea. You may think what she must be when I teil you for a truth that there are not one dozen men (troops) on board with a dry hammock, every seam in her deck letting in water. They had to give, or at least did give, extra grog.
. "____ ____."

This letter is from an intelligent and responsible person on board the Transit, and is authenticated by name, rank, and every other essential establishing the credit of the writer.


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