The Sovereign of the Seas was comissioned by Charles I in 1634 and launched in 1637. With a keel length of 39.4m, a midship section of 14.8m, a mean draught of 7.1m, a length of 71.5m from bow to stern and a height of 23.4m from keel to the tip of the cresset, she was considered the largest ship in the world at the time.. 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, but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of the king. She was later renamed Sovereign under the republican Commonwealth, and then HMS Royal Sovereign at the Restoration of Charles II.. The elaborately gilded stern ordered by Charles I of England.

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The stern view of the 'Sovereign of the Seas', takes up the left half of the picture. Built by Pett at Woolwich in 1637 to the designs of his father, Phineas Pett, she was believed to be the most powerful ship of her day and was the prototype for all 100-gun English first-rates which followed, though the exact number of her guns (100 or more in.. Fully rigged model of the clipper ship Sovereign of the Seas. Solid hull showing the extremely sharp shape of the bow and stern, painted black and copper. Rigging and deck furniture detailed. Mounted on a wooden cradle. The Sovereign of the Seas was built by Donald McKay in 1852. An extreme clipper, she set a record for speed under sail, 22 knots, that lasted for decades.