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HMS Solebay (1763)

History
Royal Navy Ensign (1707-1801)Great Britain
Name: HMS Solebay
Ordered: 30 January 1762
Builder: Thomas Airey & Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Laid down: 10 May 1762
Launched: 9 September 1763
Completed: 15 March 1764 at Sheerness Dockyard
Commissioned: August 1763
Fate: Wrecked off Nevis 25 January 1782
General characteristics
Class and type: Mermaid-class frigate
Displacement: 619  4⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 124 ft 0 in (37.80 m) (gundeck)
  • 102 ft 8.5 in (31.306 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 200 officers and men
Armament:
  • 28 guns comprising
  • Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder cannon
  • Quarterdeck 4 × 3-pounder cannon
  • 12 swivels.

HMS Solebay was a Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in August 1763 under Captain William Hay.

In 1777-78 the vessel was used as a floating prison for John McKinly, the first President of Delaware, who was captured by the British Army after the Battle of Brandywine.



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