Name HMS Solebay Laid down 10 May 1762 Construction started 10 May 1762 Builder Newcastle upon Tyne | Ordered 30 January 1762 Commissioned August 1763 Launched 9 September 1763 | |
Completed 15 March 1764 at Sheerness Dockyard Fate Wrecked off Nevis 25 January 1782 | ||
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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