Torpedo damage to the battleship Resolution (1915) in dry dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

Looking aft from the side wall of the dry dock in Portsmouth Dockyard, level with the anti-torpedo bulge, showing the steel plating added to the temporary repairs carried out to the port side of the battleship Resolution (1915). The Resolution was torpedoed by the French submarine Beveziers (1935) off Dakar on 25 Sep. 1940. The torpedo hit at station 97 in No. 1 boiler room and her bulges were flooded from stations 79 to 119. Temporary repairs were carried out at Freetown and Gibraltar and then checked and strengthened at Portsmouth before she crossed the Atlantic to be permanently repaired at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.