Sovereign of the Seas Exclusive Edition
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HMS Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th century British Royal Navy first-rate
ship of the line of 100 guns, later she became known as just Sovereign and then
Royal Sovereign.
She was built by Peter Pett (later a Commissioner of the Navy), under the guidance
of his father Phineas, the kings master shipwright, and was launched at Woolwich
dockyard on October 13, 1637. As the second three-decked first-rate (the first
three-decker being Prince Royal of 1610), she was the predecessor of Nelsons
Victory, although Revenge, built in 1577 by Mathew Baker, was the inspiration
providing the innovation of a single deck devoted entirely to broadside guns.
She was the most extravagantly decorated warship in the Royal Navy,and the money
spent making her helped to create the financial crisis for Charles I that contributed
to the English Civil War.
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