The third _Royal Sovereign_, partly built, in accordance with an Admiralty order, out of as much of the timbers of the old ship as could be saved--'such part of the remains of the said ship as shall be serviceable'[69]--was launched in the presence of the great Duke of Marlborough, who presided on the occasion. It was in the cabin of this _Royal Sovereign_ that Admiral Rooke planned his swoop on the Vigo galleons, and the ship also served as flagship to Sir Clowdisley Shovell.[70] She lasted long enough to be flagship at Portsmouth during the Seven Years' War, and it was on board her, one stormy March morning, that Admiral Boscawen signed the order for the firing party that shot Admiral Byng. The fourth _Royal Sovereign_ fought as a flagship with Lord Howe on the 'Glorious First of June,' and was Collingwood's ship at Trafalgar. 'See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action!' exclaimed Nelson, as he saw the _Royal Sovereign_ open fire and break the line. Nor did any other ship in all the British fleet make a more brilliant fight of it that day than the _Royal Sovereign_ and her 'Tars of the Tyne,' as Collingwood himself called the sturdy Northumbrian lads who formed nine-tenths of his flagship's crew. Our fifth _Royal Sovereign_ was an ironclad of the 'sixties, and the sixth is the present battleship of the name, now in the Home Fleet, which was named and launched with much _eclat_ by Queen Victoria at Portsmouth on the 26th of February 1891, and served for many years as flagship of the Channel Fleet. Such in brief outline are some of the leading events in the story of the _Royal Sovereign_.