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 × 6-pdr 19 cwt guns on wooden trucks (UD) 4 × 4-pdr 12 cwt guns on wooden trucks (QD)

HMS Solebay was a member of the Gibraltar Group of 24-gun sixth rates.^[1] 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.^[2]