SV ''Resolute'' was a Colombian

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoo ...

that the

German submarine U-172 German submarine ''U-172'' was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' during World War II. She was first assigned to the 4th U-boat Flotilla for training and on 1 May 1942 was reassigned to the 10th flotilla, an operational long ...

shelled and sank on 23 June 1942 in the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

Construction

''Resolute'' was built as a schooner at an unknown date. Her size and speed are also unknown. She was assessed at .

Sinking

''Resolute'' was stopped by the

at 17:10 pm on 23 June 1942 in the

near Saint Andrews and

Old Providence The Providence Island colony was established in 1630 by English Puritans on what is now the Colombian Department of San Andrés and Providencia, about east of the coast of Nicaragua. Although intended to be a model Puritan co ...

. Afterwards the U-boat sank the abandoned vessel with hand grenades and gunfire from her deck gun. The attack and sinking of the ''Resolute'' still claimed the lives six of her ten crew members; the four survivors later claimed that they were machine-gunned after having abandoned the ship, but this was apparently a misinterpretation of shots that missed the ''Resolute''.

Wreck

The wreck of ''Resolute'' lies at ().

References

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