HMS Solebay (D70)
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| Name: | HMS Solebay |
| Builder: | R and W Hawthorn |
| Laid down: | 3 February 1943 |
| Launched: | 22 February 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 25 September 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | April 1962 |
| Identification: | Pennant number D70 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 1967 |
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| Class and type: | Battle-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 379 ft (116 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 3 in (12.27 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 2 boilers, 50,000 shp (37 MW) |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 268 |
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HMS Solebay was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the Battle of Solebay which took place in 1672 between an Anglo-French force and the Dutch Navy during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Solebay was built by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company Limited on the Tyne. She was launched on the on 22 February 1944 and commissioned on the on 25 September 1945.
Solebay was intended to join the 19th Destroyer Flotilla of the British Pacific Fleet, but the war against Japan ended while Solebay was working up in the Mediterranean, and so she returned to Home Waters. She subsequently became Captain (D), or leader, of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Home Fleet which was based in the UK. Solebay also took part in Operation Deadlight, the large-scale destruction of the German U-boat fleet, and which resulted in over one hundred of the boats being sunk in a variety of ways.
In 1953, Solebay was involved in the 1953 Fleet Review at Spithead, which took place in celebration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and which showed the still, at that time, immense splendour, and power of the Royal Navy. Solebay was positioned in the middle of her sister-ships Cadiz and Corunna.
Later that year, like many of her sister-ships, Solebay was placed in Reserve. In 1957, Solebay returned to active service, becoming Captain (D) of the 1st Destroyer Squadron, which saw service with the Home and Mediterranean Fleets. In 1959, while still part of that squadron, Solebay deployed to the Far East. While there, tragedy struck her sister-ship, Hogue, which had collided with the Indian light cruiser Mysore. Solebay, along with another sister-ship, towed the heavily damaged Hogue to a nearby base.
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