Royal Sovereign

Royal Sovereign can refer to :

  • HMS Royal Sovereign, any of various ships of the Royal Navy
  • Royal Sovereign class battleship, a class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy
  • Revenge class battleship, a class of Royal Navy dreadnoughts sometimes referred to as the Royal Sovereign class
  • Royal Sovereign was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.
  • The Royal Sovereign lighthouse
    • The Royal Sovereign shoal which the lighthouse marks

Famous quotes containing the words royal and/or sovereign:

    “The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.”
    —William Blackstone (1723–1780)

    “The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)