Dates: 1944 - 1961
HMS Solent was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on June 8, 1944.
She spent most of her career in the Pacific Far East, often in company with her sister, HMS Sleuth. Together they sank fifteen Japanese sailing vessels and the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 3. Solent then went on to sink a Japanese patrol vessel and a Japanese landing craft, whilst damaging another.
The Solent survived the Second World War, and was sold off, arriving at Troon on August 28, 1961 for breaking up.
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 was a storeship, transferred from the War Department in 1907 and sold later that year.
HMS Solent was an S class submarine, launched in 1944 and broken up in 1961.
