Numerous French naval vessels have borne the name ''Résolue'', the French for "Resolute", as have several privateers.

Naval vessels

* was an ''Iphigénie''-class frigate of 32 guns launched in 1778 that the British

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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

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d 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 ; she was last listed in 1802. * was a ''Pallas''-class frigate launched in 1812 and renamed ''Résolue'' in 1830; she was wrecked in 1833 and broken up where she lay. * 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.

Privateers and other ships

* ''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. captured her on 22 January 1794 during the

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after inflicting heavy casualties. By one report, the Dutch at Batavia purchased ''Vengeur'' and would send her in July to Mauritius as a cartel with the French prisoners. * ''Resolue'' (or ''Resolu''), was a French privateer brig of 18 guns and 70 men that captured on 24 November 1798. ''Resolue'' had previously captured the English merchant ship ''General Wolfe'', sailing from

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and an American sloop sailing from

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. *''Résolue'', of

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, was a privateer of 14 guns and 65 men that captured in 1799. * The chasse maree ''Résolue'' was transporting troops from Burles when captured her on 20 May 1801.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Résolue, French Ship French Navy ship names Privateer ships of France