West Country Wagon — Royal Sovereign Nickname

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A first-rate under sail. Not a named-ship portrait.

Overview

The nickname is already on HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. She emerged in service as a notoriously sluggish sailer and earned the unaffectionate fleet nickname the West Country Wagon.¹

The Nickname

This note covers that nickname only. Coppered Hull Revolution 1779–1783 stays on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The Sovereign note already records that a fresh copper bottom applied at Plymouth just before the 1805 campaign transformed her sailing. That coppering sentence stays there. Copper Sheathing — Hull Protection is the Victory 1780-refit note. Plymouth Dockyard is the yard-build note.²

Sources

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

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Ships_Maritime
• Individual_Ships_Index

Same Subject

• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview
• Plymouth Dockyard
• Copper Sheathing — Hull Protection
• Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography

Cross-Domain

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

Footnotes

1. Notoriously sluggish sailer; unaffectionate fleet nickname the West Country Wagon: HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. ↩

2. Fresh copper bottom at Plymouth just before the 1805 campaign: same Sovereign note. Do not write Coppered Hull Revolution 1779–1783. Do not recopy a spoken line. ↩