HMS Resource (F79)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Resource.

HMS Resource was a fleet repair ship of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs and launched in 1928. The ship served in two theatres during the Second World War.

Resource in 1932
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Resource
Ordered	16 February 1927
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	August 1927
Launched	27 November 1928
Motto	Passim Ut Orim: 'Everywhere as of yore'
Nickname(s)	Remorse
Fate	Scrapped from February 1954
Badge	On a Field Blue, a Sea-Unicorn Silver horned Gold.
General characteristics
Displacement	12,300 tons
Length	530 ft (160 m)
Beam	83 ft (25 m)
Draught	22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Propulsion	4 × three-drum Admiralty boilers Two shafts with shaft horsepower of 7,500
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	581 (peacetime)
Armament	4 × 4 in AA guns
Notes	Pennant number F79

Resource was fitted with four three-drum Admiralty boilers, giving her a top speed of 15 knots (28 km/h). She was armed with four 4" guns. Her complement varied throughout her career, from a peacetime complement of 581, rising in wartime. She displaced 12,300 tons.

She served in the Mediterranean from 1939 until 1944, except in early 1940 when she spent a small amount of time at Freetown. She served in the Eastern Fleet from 1944, and was scrapped at Inverkeithing in February 1954.

Resource was given the nickname "Remorse" by her crew, with Don H. Kennedy commenting that "the repair ship Resource became the despair ship Remorse".^[1]