HMS Royal Sovereign

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.