Rotheram Edward — Captain HMS Royal Sovereign

Generated portrait. Not a historical photograph.

Overview

The posting is already on HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview and Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography. At Trafalgar Royal Sovereign carried the lee column under her flag captain Edward Rotheram.¹

The Posting

This note covers that Trafalgar flag-captain posting only. Birth, death, and a full life stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. A spoken line stays on the Collingwood note and the source card, not here.

The flag-shift to HMS Euryalus — Frigate is its own isolate. The first-into-action fact stays on the Sovereign note.²

Sources

• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @knight2005pursuit
• @hughes1957collingwood
• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview
• Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Persons
• Military_Commanders_Index
• British_Age_of_Sail_Commanders_Index

Same Subject

• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview
• Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview
• HMS Euryalus — Frigate

Cross-Domain

• HMS Victory — Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• Age of Sail — Chronological Timeline

Footnotes

1. Lee column under her flag captain Edward Rotheram: HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. Named on Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography. ↩

2. Do not invent birth, death, or a career. Do not recopy a spoken line. Quotes stay on source cards. ↩