HMS Sovereign of The Seas

HMS Sovereign of the Seas

For other ships of the same name, see Sovereign of the Seas, HMS Royal Sovereign, and HMS Sovereign.

Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th century warship of the English Navy. She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of the king. She was later renamed Sovereign, and then Royal Sovereign. The ship was launched on 13 October 1637 and served from 1638 until 1697, when a fire burned the ship to the waterline at Chatham.