HMS Royal Sovereign: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

HMS Royal Sovereign is the name of four warships of the British Royal Navy.

1. The first Royal Sovereign was a first rate launched in 1701. She was Admiral George Rooke's flagship in the War of the Spanish Succession.
2. The second and most famous Royal Sovereign was a first rate launched in 1786. She was Admiral Collingwood's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
3. The third Royal Sovereign was the name ship of the Royal Sovereign class of eight 15,000 ton pre-Dreadnought battleships built under the 1889 Naval Defence Act. Launched in 1891, she was scrapped in 1913, having been rendered obsolete by the "all big gun" Dreadnought-type battleship.
4. The fourth Royal Sovereign, launched in May 1915, was a Revenge class battleship built between 1913 and 1917. Displacing 27,500 tons and armed with 8–15 inch guns, she ended her service as the Soviet Arkhangelsk from 1944–1949.