French frigate Résolue (1778)

French service: 270-290
British service: 54 (as receiving ship)

	Résolue in 1794
History
France
Name	Résolue
Namesake	Resolute
Builder	Lemarchand, Saint Malo; plans by Léon-Michel Guignace
Laid down	April 1777 as No. 1
Launched	16 March 1778
In service	April 1778
Captured	14 October 1798
Great Britain
Name	Resolue
Acquired	14 October 1798
Fate	Hulk in Plymouth; Broken up 1811;
General characteristics
Class and type	Iphigénie-class frigate
Displacement	1,150 tons (French)
Tons burthen	877 27⁄94 (bm)
Length	140 ft 2 in (42.7 m) (overall); 116 ft 3 in (35.4 m) (keel)
Beam	37 ft 8 in (11.5 m)
Draught	4.9 m (16 ft) (unladen)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	French service:270-290; British service:54 (as receiving ship);
Armament	French service: 26 × 12-pounder guns + 6 × 6-pounder guns; between 1793 and 1795 she also had 2 × 36-pounder obusiers, and between 1796 and 1798 she also had 4 × 36-pounder obusiers; British service:28 × 18-pounder guns + 4 × 6-pounder guns;

Résolue was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her twice, once in November 1791 during peacetime, and again in 1798. The Royal Navy hulked her in 1799 and she was broken up in 1811.

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