Royal Sovereign Construction — American War Delay

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. An unfinished first-rate on the stocks. Not a Toulon arsenal and not a named-ship portrait.

Overview

The delay is already on HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. She was laid down at Plymouth Dockyard in 1774, but the American War starved naval construction of resources and her completion was delayed for over a decade. She was finally launched on 4 September 1786.¹

The Delay

This note covers that starved construction only. A master-shipwright list and a cost stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

West Country Wagon — Royal Sovereign Nickname already used the sluggish-sailer nickname. Plymouth Dockyard is the yard-build note. Do not invent a cost or a shipwright name from this page. Do not rewrite the 1805 coppering here.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @hughes1957collingwood
• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Ships_Maritime
• Individual_Ships_Index

Same Subject

• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview
• Plymouth Dockyard
• West Country Wagon — Royal Sovereign Nickname
• First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview

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

Footnotes

1. Laid down at Plymouth Dockyard in 1774; the American War starved naval construction of resources; launched 4 September 1786: HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. ↩

2. Nickname stays on West Country Wagon — Royal Sovereign Nickname. Yard-build stays on Plymouth Dockyard. Do not invent a cost or a shipwright name. Do not rewrite the 1805 coppering. ↩