HMS Temeraire
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Five ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy
have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:
was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line
captured from the French in 1759 and sold in 1784. was a 98-gun second-rate
launched in 1798. She was used as a prison ship
from 1813, a receiving ship from 1820 and was sold for breaking up in 1838, recorded in Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
. was an iron-hulled screw-propelled ship launched in 1876. She became a training ship and was renamed Indus II in 1904, Akbar in 1915, and was sold in 1921. was a Bellerophon class
battleship
launched in 1907 and sold in 1921.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:
was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line
Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
captured from the French in 1759 and sold in 1784. was a 98-gun second-rate
Second-rate
In the British Royal Navy, a second rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th century second rates had fewer guns and were originally two-deckers or had only partially armed third gun decks. The term in no way implied...
launched in 1798. She was used as a prison ship
Prison ship
A prison ship, historically sometimes called a prison hulk, is a vessel used as a prison, often to hold convicts awaiting transportation to penal colonies. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries....
from 1813, a receiving ship from 1820 and was sold for breaking up in 1838, recorded in Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting executed in 1839 by the English artist J. M. W. Turner...
. was an iron-hulled screw-propelled ship launched in 1876. She became a training ship and was renamed Indus II in 1904, Akbar in 1915, and was sold in 1921. was a Bellerophon class
Bellerophon class battleship
The Bellerophon class was a class of three dreadnought battleships that were built in the United Kingdom prior to World War I, and served in the Royal Navy during the war. The Bellerophons were near carbon copies of the previous , with the exception of a second tripod mast...
battleship
Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...
launched in 1907 and sold in 1921.
- HMS Temeraire was to have been a Lion classLion class battleshipThe Lion class battleships were a class of six fast battleships designed for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. They were a larger, improved version of the King George V class with guns. Only two ships were laid down before World War II began in September 1939 and a third was ordered during the...
battleship. She was laid down in 1939 but construction was suspended later that year, and she was cancelled in 1944. - HMS Temeraire was the Upper Yardmen training establishment at Port EdgarPort EdgarPort Edgar is a marina situated on the south shore of the Firth of Forth immediately to the west of the southern end of the Forth Road Bridge in the town of South Queensferry, Scotland. In previous years it had been the site of HMS Lochinvar. In the inter war period Port Edgar was the a destroyer...
, South QueensferrySouth QueensferrySouth Queensferry , also called Queensferry, is a former Royal Burgh in West Lothian now part of the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located some ten miles to the north west of the city centre, on the shore of the Firth of Forth between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge, approximately 8...
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
between 1955 and 1960. - HMS Temeraire is the Directorate of Naval Physical Training and Sport (DNPTS) in PortsmouthHMNB PortsmouthHer Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the British Royal Navy...
. It was established in 1910 and commissioned as HMS Temeraire in 1971.
See also
- French ship Le Téméraire
- Dragon TemeraireTemeraire (series)The Temeraire series of novels by Naomi Novik is composed of His Majesty's Dragon , Throne of Jade, Black Powder War, Empire of Ivory, Victory of Eagles, and Tongues of Serpents...
from the eponymous fantasy series set in the Napoleonic wars.