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Customer Reference on the Sovereign of the Seas:
The beauty about them is almost poetic.
(UK Buyer) London Boat Show 2003
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it in the near future. (Taiwan Buyer) September 2006
History of Sovereign of the Seas:
In 1634, the
ill-fated monarch Charles I informed the great English shipbuilder
Phineas Pett of his “princely resolution for the building of a great
new ship” as part of his overall effort to improve and expand the
English Navy. England enemies and concerns were many and included the
Dutch, her most serious rival in overseas trade, France, Spain and
North African corsairs preying on her vessels.
Built at a cost of £65,586, about ten 40-gun ships could have been
built for that amount; Sovereign of the Seas was intended as a
propaganda as well as war. The Royal Navy’s most lavishly ornamented
vessel, her decorations wee carved by the brothers John and Mathias
Christmas and described in a book by Thomas Heywood.
In fact, the ship-money tax levied by Charles for his Naval program was
much resented by “his faithful and loving subjects”, and is one of the
excesses that led to his overthrow and execution in 1649.
Under Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth, the ship was renamed Sovereign,
and following the restoration of Charles II in 1660; she was rebuilt
and renamed Royal Sovereign. During the Anglo-Dutch wars, she was
action at the battle of Kentish Knock in 1652, Orfordness (1666),
Solebay (1672), Schoonveld (1673), and the Texel (1673). After a
rebuild in 1685, she was at Beachy Head (1690) and Barfleur (1692).
Eleven years later, a misplaced candle set the ship on fire and she
burned at Chatham.
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