HMS Solebay (1763)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Solebay.
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 Great Britain
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| 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 & type: | Mermaid-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 619 4⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 officers and men |
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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.[1]
References
- ↑ McKinly, John; Evans, Mary T. (1910). "Letters of Dr. John McKinly to his Wife, while a Prisoner of War, 1777-1778". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania) 34 (1): 9. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
Further reading
- Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
- David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
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