RESOLUTION HMS (S22) 1967
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:36 pm
Built as a nuclear ballistic missile submarine under yard No 1614 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy.
May 1963 ordered.
26 February 1964 keel laid down by the Director General Ships, Sir Alfred Sims.
15 February 1966 launched under the name HMS RESOLUTION (S22), launched by Queen Elizabeth the Queen mother. She was the 9th ship in the Royal Navy what was named RESOLUTION.
Displacement 7.500 surfaced, 8.400 tons submerged. Dim. 129.5 x 10.1 x 9.1m. (draught).
Powered by one Rolls-Royce pressured water reactor, delivering steam to geared English Electric turbines, 27.500 shp., one shaft, speed 20 knots surfaced, 25 knots dived.
Diving depth 275 meter.
Armament: 16 – Polaris A-3 SLMB launchers. 6 - 21 inch bow torpedo tubes, which could fire Spearfish torpedoes, later replaced by wire guided Tigerfish torpedoes.
Crew 13 officers and 120 enlisted. (two crews)
02 October 1967 commissioned.
The construction was unusual, the bow and stern section were constructed separately before they were assembled together with the American designed missile compartment.
After commissioning she carried out a long period of sea trials under which the firing of a Polaris test missile on 15 February 1968 at 11.15 a.m. at the USAF Eastern Test Range off Cape Kennedy on the East coast of the USA.
15 June 1968 she left for her first operational patrol, as a unit of the 10th Submarine Squadron, based at Faslane Naval base, Scotland. After sailing from Faslane she would submerge and stay under water till she returned from her patrol some months later.
Her Polaris system was updated in 1984 with the Chevaline IFE (Improved Front End) that included two new warheads and re-entry bodies and penaids, super-hardened to resist ABM attack, replacing the original three ET 317 warheads.
1991 She made her longest patrol of 108 days.
When she got older she suffered maintenance problems, and after the first Vanguard class submarine was commissioned the Resolution class was slowly de-commissioned.
22 October 1994 she paid off after 69 patrols, her decommissioning was to have been attended by the Queen Mother but bad weather prevented her from attending, instead Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who commanded the Faslane based minesweeper COTTESMORE was able to help out.
She is till today laid up at Rosyth Dockyard, her reactor removed, but still low level traces of radiation are still present in her hull. Scrapping or scuttling is not possible till today.
British Indian Ocean Territory 2001 34p sg?, scott?
Source: The World Navies by Chris Chant. http://www.submarineonstamps.co.il/openhist.php?ID=262
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_class_submarine http://users.skynet.be/RonSubCovers/SSB ... lution.htm
May 1963 ordered.
26 February 1964 keel laid down by the Director General Ships, Sir Alfred Sims.
15 February 1966 launched under the name HMS RESOLUTION (S22), launched by Queen Elizabeth the Queen mother. She was the 9th ship in the Royal Navy what was named RESOLUTION.
Displacement 7.500 surfaced, 8.400 tons submerged. Dim. 129.5 x 10.1 x 9.1m. (draught).
Powered by one Rolls-Royce pressured water reactor, delivering steam to geared English Electric turbines, 27.500 shp., one shaft, speed 20 knots surfaced, 25 knots dived.
Diving depth 275 meter.
Armament: 16 – Polaris A-3 SLMB launchers. 6 - 21 inch bow torpedo tubes, which could fire Spearfish torpedoes, later replaced by wire guided Tigerfish torpedoes.
Crew 13 officers and 120 enlisted. (two crews)
02 October 1967 commissioned.
The construction was unusual, the bow and stern section were constructed separately before they were assembled together with the American designed missile compartment.
After commissioning she carried out a long period of sea trials under which the firing of a Polaris test missile on 15 February 1968 at 11.15 a.m. at the USAF Eastern Test Range off Cape Kennedy on the East coast of the USA.
15 June 1968 she left for her first operational patrol, as a unit of the 10th Submarine Squadron, based at Faslane Naval base, Scotland. After sailing from Faslane she would submerge and stay under water till she returned from her patrol some months later.
Her Polaris system was updated in 1984 with the Chevaline IFE (Improved Front End) that included two new warheads and re-entry bodies and penaids, super-hardened to resist ABM attack, replacing the original three ET 317 warheads.
1991 She made her longest patrol of 108 days.
When she got older she suffered maintenance problems, and after the first Vanguard class submarine was commissioned the Resolution class was slowly de-commissioned.
22 October 1994 she paid off after 69 patrols, her decommissioning was to have been attended by the Queen Mother but bad weather prevented her from attending, instead Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who commanded the Faslane based minesweeper COTTESMORE was able to help out.
She is till today laid up at Rosyth Dockyard, her reactor removed, but still low level traces of radiation are still present in her hull. Scrapping or scuttling is not possible till today.
British Indian Ocean Territory 2001 34p sg?, scott?
Source: The World Navies by Chris Chant. http://www.submarineonstamps.co.il/openhist.php?ID=262
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_class_submarine http://users.skynet.be/RonSubCovers/SSB ... lution.htm