HMS Royal Sovereign

Survived

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	First rate
Guns	100 guns
Wars	French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars

100-gun first rate, Collingwood's flagship at Trafalgar. Newly coppered and faster than the ships behind her, she broke the Franco-Spanish line alone and fought Santa Ana for a quarter of an hour before any other ship came up. Dismasted.

The Opening Engagement at Trafalgar; H.M.S. 'Royal Sovereign' raking the stern of the Spanish flagship 'Santa Ana' signed and dated lower right: JW Carmichael/ 1856 Lot number: Live Auction of-royal-and-noble-descent-l18306 lot 117 Sale 2018 Photo: James Wilson Carmichael, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
Middle gundeck: 28 × 24-pounder guns
Upper gundeck: 30 × 12-pounder guns
QD: 10 × 12-pounder guns
Fc: 4 × 12-pounder guns

Builder	Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down	7 January 1774
Launched	11 September 1786
Length	183 ft 10+1⁄2 in (56.0 m) (gundeck)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

11 September 1786

Glorious First of June

Damaged

28 May – 1 June 1794 · French Revolutionary Wars

Vice-Admiral Graves's flagship

Battle of Trafalgar

Damaged

21 October 1805 · Napoleonic Wars

Collingwood's flagship; led the lee column. Dismasted

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1841