Resolution (1779 ship)
Resolution was launched at Liverpool in 1776 as the West Indiaman "Thomas Hall"; she was renamed in 1779. Then between 1791 and 1804 "Revolution" made some six voyages as a whaler. On one voyage, in 1793, a French frigate captured her, but "Resolution" was re-captured. In 1804 a new owner returned her to the West Indies trade. She does not appear to have sailed after early 1805. Merchantman. "Resolution" first appeared in "Lloyd's Register" ("LR") in 1779 when "Thomas Hall" was renamed "Resolution". ("Thomas Hall" did not appear in earlier issues of "LR".) "Thomas Hall  was a West Indiaman, and Resolution" continued in that trade. Whaler. In 1791 Peter, William & Samuel Mellish purchased "Resolution" to use her as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery. 1st whaling voyage (1791–1792): Captain Joseph Russell sailed in 1791. "Resolution" returned on 25 December 1792. Aborted voyage (1793): Captain Gardner sailed from Deal on 31 March 1793, bound for the South Seas. On 16 June "LL" reported that "Resolution", which had been sailing from London to the South Seas, had fallen prey to a French frigate. However, "Resolution" had been retaken and sent into Lisbon. 2nd whaling voyage  (1794–1795): On 2 January 1794 "Resolution", Lock, master, sailed from Deal, bound for Botany Bay. On 11 March she was at Portsmouth. She arrived at Port Jackson on 10 September 1794 with provisions. Australian records show that when she left she was supposedly bound for India. However, she was reported to have arrived on 9 February 1795 at Walprazia from Botany Bay. 3rd whaling voyage (1795–1796): Captain John Locke (or Lock) sailed from London in 1795 for the waters off Peru. "Resolution" returned to London on 12 December 1796 with 82 tuns of sperm oil, 123 tuns of whale oil , and 80 cwt of whale bone. 4th whaling voyage (1798–1800): Captain William Trish acquired a letter of marque on 25 August 1798. Captain William Irish sailed from London on 7 September 1798, and Deal on the 20th, bound for the South Seas. "Resolution", , and returned from Peru together. On 27 December 1800 they were 25 leagues west of Scilly when they encountered a 20-gun French privateer. In the ensuing engagement "Cornwall" took many shots to her hull. By the time the French privateer sailed off "Cornwall" had eleven feet of water in her hold and was quite water-logged . The engagement had lasted five hours and the whalers arrived at Falmouth on the 28th. "Resolution" arrived at Gravesend on 11 January 1801. She underwent a thorough repair in 1801. 5th whaling voyage (1801): Captain Irish sailed on 31 March 1801 for the South Seas, and returned on 1 December. 6th whaling voyage (1802–1803): Captain Irish sailed from London on 16 February 1802, bound for South Africa. "Resolution" was at Delagoa Bay on 8 August 1802. On 18 February 1803 she left St Helena in a convoy with East Indiamen and the whaler "Spencer", with as escort. "Resolution" arrived back  at London on 22 April 1803. West Indiaman. The Melishes sold "Resolution" circa 1804 to a Mr. M. Gibson, who then sailed her as a West Indiaman again. "Resolution" made one voyage to Trinidad and back. Then on 21 January 1805 she came into Falmouth. She had become leaky while sailing from London to Trinidad. Although the registers continued to carry "Resolution" for some more years, the data was stale. She also did not reappear in "Lloyd's List"s SAD data after having come into Falmouth.