HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar. She was the third of seven Royal Navy s
The opening engagement at Trafalgar; Royal Sovereign raking the stern of the Spanish flagship Santa Ana; John Wilson Carmichael
Royal Sovereign was involved with a tragic collision with the transport Bellisarius which promptly sank on 17 March 1796
The day after Trafalgar, Victory under canvas endeavouring to clear the land while Royal Sovereign is disabled and in tow by Euryalus; Nicholas Pocock
Guns from the Royal Sovereign installed in the Collingwood Monument on Tyneside
Vice-Admiral of the Red Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Born in Newcas
HMS Royal Sovereign (1786)
…HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar. She was the third of seven Royal Navy ships to bear the name. She was launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 11 September 1786…
Portrait by Henry Howard, 1828
Silhouette of Collingwood drawn by Horatio Nelson when both were serving in the West Indies
HMS Excellent with other ships during the battle at Cape St. Vincent, 1797. Collingwood would serve four years in command of the ship.
Collingwood shown in later life in a painting in Paxton House