HMS Solebay (1711)

History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Solebay
Ordered	29 July 1710
Builder	Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth
Launched	21 August 1711
Commissioned	1712
Reclassified	Bomb ketch June 1726; Fireship August 1734; 20-gun sixth rate June 1735; Hospital ship August 1742;
Fate	Sold 23 June 1748
General characteristics
Type	24-gun sixth rate
Tons burthen	272+30⁄94 bm
Length	95 ft 10 in (29.2 m) gundeck; 80 ft 0 in (24.4 m) keel for tonnage;
Beam	25 ft 2 in (7.7 m) for tonnage
Depth of hold	10 ft 8 in (3.3 m)
Armament	20 x 6-pdr 19 cwt guns on wooden trucks (UD); 4 x 4-pdrs 12 cwt guns on wooden trucks (QD);

HMS Solebay was a member of the Gibraltar Group of 24-gun sixth rates. After commissioning she spent her career in Home waters, North America, and the West Indies on trade protection duties. She was converted to a bomb ketch with 3 mortars and six guns in 1726. She became a fireship in 1734 then converted back to a 24-gun sixth rate in 1735. Her final conversion was into a hospital ship to lie at Tower Wharf in 1742. She was sold in 1748.

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