HMS Temeraire

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The (3rd) Temeraire is towed to her last anchorage for scrapping by William Turner , 1838 .

Five ships and two naval bases of the British Royal Navy were called HMS Temeraire :

  • The first Temeraire was a French ship of the line with 74 cannons; it was taken over by the British in 1759 after the naval battle of Lagos (1759) on August 19, 1759 and sold again in 1784. It didn't yet have the prefix HMS for His / Her Majesty Ship , which wasn't introduced until 1789.
  • The second Temeraire , was a cutter or a chebec with six guns, originally of the French Navy, which was captured by HMS Dido in the Mediterranean in 1795 . It was commissioned as a Révolutionaire in 1793 and renamed in 1794. In 1803 it was sold for demolition by the Royal Navy.
  • The third Temeraire , a ship of the line with 98 cannons, was laid down in 1798. At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 she was the second ship behind the HMS Victory in the keel line . The ship became famous for its representation on two paintings by William Turner , in particular The Last Voyage of the Téméraire (English original title The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up ) from 1838. The painting shows how this symbol of British naval rule by one Steamboat being towed for scrapping. The volcanic dust of Tambora , which erupted in 1815, resulted in the characteristic sky colors shown in the picture at sunrise and sunset.
  • The fourth Temeraire was a steel, screw-propelled ship. It was armed with two cannons on disappearance carts. The keel was laid in 1876. She was part of the British Mediterranean Fleet for several years and took part in the 1882 bombing of Alexandria . After being renamed and used several times (1904: Indus II , 1915: Akbar ), it was sold in 1921.
  • A 42,500-ton Lion- class battleship was to be built as the sixth Temeraire ; the planning was stopped in 1939 and no longer carried out.
  • From 1955 to 1960, an Upper Yardmen training camp in Port Edgar, South Queensferry, Scotland was named HMS Temeraire .
  • Since 1971, the firm founded in 1910 carries Directorate of Naval Physical Training and Sport (dNTPs) in Portsmouth the traditional name HMS Temeraire .

Surname

  • French ship class: Téméraire class (over 100 ships of the type).
  • Meaning: French word for fearlessness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 masterpieces. The Last Voyage of the Téméraire by William Turner (1775-1851). In: TV hearing and seeing , No. 21/10, p. 30