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 captain sat in a commodore’s hat
    And dined in a royal way
    On toasted pigs and pickles and figs
    And gummery bread each day.”
    —Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    “If a Sovereign should, by great accident, deviate into moderation, justice, and clemency, what a contemptible figure would he make in the catalogue of Princes!”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)