She was 102-gun first-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched in 1637. Originally named Sovereign of the Seas was built by Peter Pett at the Woolwich Dockyard. She was renamed Sovereign in 1651 and Royal Sovereign in 1685. She had her first fight in the Battle of the Kentish Knock. She was in regular service during the three Anglo-Dutch Wars. Sovereign became leaky and defective with age during the reign of William III, and was laid up at Chatham and finally was burnt in 1697.
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