Resolution served with the Channel Squadron up to 1901; she took part in the Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review and a number of manoeuvres in the Atlantic and the Southwest Approaches.

She suffered damage while participating in combined manoeuvres in 1906, and was recommissioned into the Special Service Division of the Home Fleet the following year.

She was decommissioned in August 1911 and laid up at Motherbank for disposal, before being sold for scrap in April 1914 and towed to the Netherlands to be broken up the following month.

Bilge keels were added to compensate for the problem, and the ships "proved to be excellent seaboats quite capable ... of maintaining high speeds in a seaway".

"[2] In the view of the maritime historian R. A. Burt, they were "highly successful; at that time, they were probably unequalled in all-round fighting efficiency.

On a voyage to Gibraltar shortly after commissioning, she suffered heavy rolling in bad weather and was forced to return to Ireland, and then to Devonport for repairs.

On 18 July 1896, she collided with her sister ship HMS Repulse, suffering slight plating and keel damage.

[6] She paid off at Portsmouth on 9 October 1901 and was placed in reserve,[7] but on 17 November 1901 she was recommissioned by Captain James Goodrich[8] to serve as a coast guard ship at Holyhead with the officers and crew of the previous guardship, the battleship HMS Colossus.

[11] After the end of the maneuvers, Captain John Edward Bearcroft was appointed in command on 16 September 1902, when she reverted to her position at Holyhead and Rear-Admiral Atkinson-Willes transferred his flag to the battleship HMS Empress of India.

[6] Resolution was recommissioned on 5 January 1904 to relieve the battleship HMS Sans Pareil as port guard ship at Sheerness.

[6] In the summer of 1906, she took part in manoeuvres during which she suffered slight damage when she collided with her sister ship HMS Ramillies near the Tongue Lightship on 15 July 1906.