HMS Solebay D70 was a Battle-class destroyer. HMS Solebay was built by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company Limited on the Tyne.  HMS 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, or leader, of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Home Fleet which was based in the UK.

HMS 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.