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- ... that HMS Solebay and HMS Derwent were the first ships assigned to suppress the Atlantic slave trade?
- Source: *Edwards, Bernard (2007). Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders - Enforcing abolition at sea 1808-1898. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-84415-633-7. - The Admirals were not best pleased when they were given the additional task of suppressing the slave trade, as was evident from their response. After much prevarication two ships were found, the 23-year-old frigate Solebay and the newly built sloop Derwent.
- Davey, James (2017). In Nelson's Wake - How the Royal Navy Ruled the Waves After Trafalgar. London: Yale University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-300-22883-0. - The Admiralty could send only a token and temporary naval force to West Africa, made up of the frigate Solebay and the sloop Derwent.
