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[[File:Figurehead.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The figurehead of the Solitaire.]]
[[File:Plans.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Solitaire blueprints.]]

'''HMS Solitaire''' is the ketch-rigged sailboat which serves as the principle research vessel of the [[Bacliff Exploration Society]].  Approximately 60 ft from bow to stern, it is made entirely of Burmese teak and Louisiana cyprus.  It was constructed by the Dutch in 1805 using the wreckage of ships from the [[Battle of Trafalgar]].  In 1836, it participated in the [[Battle of Matagorda Bay]], the largest naval battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere.  It is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art squidcams and ham radio decoder rings.

== Captains ==
* [[Grissom Turduckensworth]] (1805-1816)
* [[Horatio Macshearwater]] (1816-1861)
* [[Sophocles "Sooty" Macshearwater]] (1861-1865)
* [[Lord Cletus Shinypants]] (May 1865 - June 1865)
* [[Mitchell Horatio Campbell]] (1865-1898)
* [[Horatio Mitchell "Mitch" Campbell]] (1898-1902)
* [[Thomas Cuthbert Campbell III]] (1902-1911)

== Sister ships ==
* [[HMS Dutch Courage]]
* [[HMS Klompen]]