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2 unusual facts about Royal Sovereign


Brown powder

Some Royal Navy ships like the Royal Sovereign-class battleships were commissioned with the already obsolete SBC-based guns, but the subsequent Majestic and Canopus-class battleships were the first to adopt Cordite Mk I.

Royal Sovereign

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.



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Dickinson Robinson Group

In 1978 DRG took over the Royal Sovereign group of companies which included well-known brand names such as Stephens inks, chalks and crayons; LePage's gums and adhesives; Seccotine; Patterson Blick; Vanguard stapling machines and Speedry magic markers.

HACS

HMS Penelope, Southampton, Newcastle, Malaya, Hood*, Australia*, Nelson*, Royal Sovereign*, Barham*, Resolution*, Cairo*, Excellent (gunnery training school)*, Revenge*, Calcutta*, Carlisle*, Curacoa*, Exeter*, Adventure*, Warspite*.

Ralph Delaval

His Royal Sovereign log books (1691–1693) are preserved in the archives of the New York Public Library.