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==Later service and loss==
In 1780, ''Resolution'' was converted into an armed transport and sailed for the [[East Indies]] in March 1781. [[French ship Sphinx (1776)|''Sphinx'']] and [[French ship Annibal (1779)|''Annibal'']] of [[Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez|Suffren]]'s (French) squadron captured ''Resolution'' on 9 June 1782. In early July 1782, during the run-up of the [[Battle of Negapatam (1782)|Battle of Negapatam]], Suffren sent ''Resolution'' to [[Manila]] to purchase spare [[Spar (sailing)|spars]], food and ammunition to resupply his fleet.<ref name=cunat164>Cunat, p. 164</ref> She then sailed on 22 July 1782 and was never seen again.

On 5 June 1783, Suffren wrote that ''Resolution'' had last been seen in the [[Sunda Strait]], and that he suspected she had either foundered or fallen into the hands of the English. An item from the Melbourne ''Argus'', 25 February 1879, said that she ended her days as a Portuguese coal-hulk at [[Rio de Janeiro]], but this has never been confirmed. [[George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway|Viscount Galway]], a [[Governor-General of New Zealand]], owned a ship's figurehead described as that of ''Resolution'', but a photograph of it does not agree with the figurehead depicted in Holman's famous [[watercolour]] of her.

Alternatively, in 1789 she may have been renamed ''Général Conway'', in November 1790 ''Amis Réunis'', and in 1792 ''Liberté''.<ref>Demerliac (1996), p. 104, no. 725.</ref> Martin Dugard's biography of Cook, ''Farther Than Any Man'', published in 2001, states: "Her fate, by some cruel twist of historical irony, is as incredible as [[HMS Endeavour|''Endeavour'']]{{'}}s – she ''[Resolution]'' was sold to the French, rechristened ''La Liberté'', and transformed into a [[whaler]], then ended her days [[Decomposition|rotting]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport Harbor]]. She settled to the bottom just a mile from ''Endeavour''." (p.&nbsp;281, Epilogue)

In 1881 the British Consul in [[Alexandria]], looking from the [[Ras El Tin Palace]], pointed out a ship in the harbour he identified as the ''Resolution'', to William N. Armstrong, attendant to Hawaiian King [[David Kalākaua]] during his trip around the world.<ref>William N Armstrong: ''[https://archive.org/details/aroundworldwith00armsgoog Around the world with a king]''. New York 1904, pp. 193, 194, 196</ref>