Parting Company HMS Royal Sovereign
HMS Royal Sovereign was built by Parsons at
Portsmouth and launched 29th May 1915 and
commissioned in May 1916, she joined the 1st
Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet but missed the
Battle of Jutland. In 1919 she joined the Atlantic
fleet. During World War Two, Royal Sovereign was
in the Home fleet during 1939 and Atlantic convoy
duty in 1940-1941. Due to her poor condition she
spent September 1942 till September 1943 in refit
in the United States, after her refit she spent just
one month in the Indian Ocean and then returned
home. She went into reserve, but was loaned to the
USSR (becoming the Archangels). She sailed for
Mumansk on Convoy duty on the 17th August 1944
and returned to Rosyth in 1949 and scrapped at
Inverkeithing. >
Artist: T. Lund-Lack
Oil Painting on canvas
Size 76 cm x 50 cm
