HMS Resolution (1771)

HMS Resolution (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. She impressed him enough that he called her "the ship of my choice", and "the fittest for service of any I have seen."

Read more about HMS Resolution (1771):  Purchase and Refitting, Cook's Voyages, Later Service and Loss