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{{other ships|HMS Resource}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=HMS Resource in 1932.jpg | Ship caption=Resource in 1932
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= | Ship class=Repair ship | Ship name=HMS Resource | Ship ordered=16 February 1927 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness | Ship laid down=August 1927 | Ship launched=27 November 1928 | Ship christened= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship captured= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate=Scrapped from February 1954 | Ship status= | Ship homeport= | Ship badge=On a Field Blue, a Sea-Unicorn Silver horned Gold. | Ship motto=Passim Ut Orim: 'Everywhere as of yore'
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship displacement=12,300 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 530|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 83|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 22|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*4 × three-drum Admiralty boilers- Two shafts with shaft horsepower of 7,500
| 15|kn|km/h|0}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=581 (peacetime) | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament= | Ship aircraft= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship notes=Pennant number F79
}} | 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 was fitted with four three-drum Admiralty boilers, giving her a top speed of {{convert|15|kn|km/h|0}}. 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. References{{refbegin}}- {{cite web|title=HMS Resource (F 79)|url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7289.html|work=Allied Warships|publisher=Uboat.net|accessdate=30 January 2013|last=Helgason|first=Guðmundur}}
- {{cite web|title=HMS Resource - Heavy Repair Ship|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-28Depot-Resource.htm|work=Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War 2|publisher=naval-history.net|accessdate=30 January 2013|date= 5 June 2011}}
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