William Hargood
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Admiral of the White Sir William Hargood was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which he gained an unfortunate rep
Portrait by Frederick Richard Say, c. 1835
HMS Royal Sovereign (1786)
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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
William Hargood
…rejoining the fleet two weeks before the battle on 21 October. During the battle, Belleisle was second in Collingwood's division, following the flagship HMS Royal Sovereign into the enemy lines by just fifteen minutes, and when there held his fire until he was able to discharge both sides simultaneously into the Fougueux…
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