DescriptionThe True Portraicture of His Maties Royall Ship the Soveraigne of the Seas. Built in the Yeare 1637 (detail of the Union flag on the jackstaff).jpg
English: The True Portraicture of His Maties Royall Ship the Soveraigne of the Seas. Built in the Yeare 1637. Captn Phineas Pette being supervisor, and Peter Pett his sonne M[aste]r Builder. The Sovereign of the Seas was the first Royal Navy ship to carry 100 guns. The hand-coloured engraving is now in the National Maritime Musuem, Greenwich (
PAJ2441).
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