Museum quality model.HMS Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th century British Royal Navy first-rate ship of the line of 100 guns, later known as just Sovereign and then Royal Sovereign.It was built by Peter Pett (later a Commissioner of the Navy), under the guidance of his father Phineas,the king''s master shipwright, and was launched at Woolwich dockyard on October 13, 1637.As the second three-decked first-rate (the first three-decker being Prince Royal of 1610), she was the predecessor of Nelson''s Victory, although Revenge, built in 1577 by Mathew Baker,was the inspiration providing the innovation of a single deck devoted entirely to broadside guns.She was the most extravagantly decorated warship in the Royal Navy,and the money spent making her helped to create the financial crisis for Charles I that contributed to the English Civil War..