French ship Résolue

• {{ship|French frigate|Résolue|1778}} was an Iphigénie-class frigate of 32 guns launched in 1778 that the British Royal Navy captured in 1798; she became HMS Resolue, serving as a slops ship and a receiving ship at Portsmouth until she was broken up in 1811.
• Résolue was a frigate obtained in 1784 from the razeed 44-gun ship of the line Romulus, formerly the British HMS Romulus, captured at Chasepeake Bay.
• Résolue was a requisitioned lugger that served in the Mediterranean in 1795. Her fate is currently unknown.
• Résolue was the Spanish xebec O Hydra, that the French captured in 1794, renamed Résolue in 1795 but then returned to her original name. The British captured her in 1795 and named her {{HMS|Resolue|1795|6}}; she was last listed in 1802.
• {{ship|French frigate|Dryade|1812|2}} was a Pallas-class frigate launched in 1812 and renamed Résolue in 1830; she was wrecked in 1833 and broken up where she lay.
• {{ship|French frigate|Résolue|1863}} was a Résolue-class frigate launched in 1863 as a sailing ship but not commissioned. Conversion to a steam frigate began c.1869 and was completed in 1872, when she was commissioned as a screw frigate. She was converted back to sail in 1877 for service as a training ship. She was decommissioned and struck in 1890. She became a coal hulk at Rochefort in 1891 and then a mooring hulk in 1893. She was sold in 1913 and broken up.

• Résolue, of 205 or 250 tons (French; of load) was a privateer commissioned at Île de France c. September 1793 under Captain Jolineaux (or Jallineaux). She had a crew of 230 men and was armed with six 12-pounder and an assortment of twenty 8 and 6-pounder guns. {{ship||Nonsuch|1781 ship|2}} captured her on 22 January 1794 during the Sunda Strait campaign of January 1794 after inflicting heavy casualties.{{sfnp|Demerliac|1999|p=309|loc=N°2903}} By one report, the Dutch at Batavia purchased Vengeur and would send her in July to Mauritius as a cartel with the French prisoners.{{cite web |last1=Houghton |first1=Roger |url=http://www.houghton.hk/?p=176 |title=A Peoples' History 1793 – 1844 from the newspapers |access-date=6 July 2018}}
• Resolue (or Resolu), was a French privateer brig of 18 guns and 70 men that {{HMS|Phaeton|1782|6}} captured on 24 November 1798. Resolue had previously captured the English merchant ship General Wolfe, sailing from Poole to Newfoundland and an American sloop sailing from Boston to Hamburg.{{London Gazette|pages=1154–1155|issue=15085|date=1 December 1798}}
• Résolue, of Saint-Malo, was a privateer of 14 guns and 65 men that {{HMS|Spitfire|1782|6}} captured in 1799.
• The chasse maree Résolue was transporting troops from Burles when {{HMS|Mondovi|1798|6}} captured her on 20 May 1801.{{London Gazette|date=17 November 1801|issue=15428|page=1386}}

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• {{cite book |title=La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 |last=Demerliac |first=Alain |year=1999 |publisher=Éditions Ancre |language=French |isbn=9782906381247 |oclc=492783890 }}
• {{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|last2=Roberts|first2=Stephen S.|year=2015|title=French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|isbn=978-1-84832-204-2}}

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