HMS Solent

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Solent, after the Solent, a stretch of water between the Isle of Wight and mainland England:

HMS Solent (1907), a War Department submarine mining vessel Solent, built in 1885,^[1] transferred to the Navy as a storeship in 1907, and sold later that year^[2]
HMS Solent (P262) was an S-class submarine, launched in 1944 and broken up in 1961

See also

List of ships named Solent

References

↑ Habesch, David (2001). The Army's Navy : British Military Vessels and their History since Henry VIII. London: Chatham. p. 203. ISBN 1-86176-157-0.
↑ Colledge, J J. Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index, Vol 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 514.

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