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The HMS Temeraire one of Britain`s most illustrious fighting ships is known to millions through JMW Turner`s masterpiece The Fighting Temeraire which portrays the battle scarred veteran of Britain`s wars with Napoleonic France In this evocative new volume Sam Willis tells the extraordinary story of the vessel behind the painting and the making of the painting itselfTurner's Temeraire was the Wonderful account of the ship that captured two French ships at Trafalgar and was much later the subject of Turner's painting voted the favorite of the English public The painting in turn inspired Newbolt's poem Now the sunset's breezes shiver And she's fading down the river But in England's song for ever She's the Fighting Temeraire
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The Fighting TemeraireSecond ship in the Royal Navy to carry the name The first a French warship captured and commandeered by the British in served with distinction during The Fighting PDFEPUB or the Seven Years' War before being sold off in The second Temeraire named in honor of her predecessor was a prestigious three decked gun warship that broke through the French and Spanish line directly astern of Nelson`s fl In a recent poll J M W Turner's The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up 1838 depicting an aging warship being towed up the Thames to a breaking yard was voted the British public's favourite painting It's easy to see why The Fighting Temeraire is a remarkable work created at the peak of Turner's ability and is a beautiful tribute to the passing of the previous age of tall ships and a time when Britannia for better or worse ruled the waves Many people may not be familiar with the history behind the masterpiece a decades long story of two great warships and several wars and a starring role in Britain's greatest naval victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 This story comprises the heart of the first of Sam Willis' 'Hearts of Oak trilogy' which has the ambitious aim of creating biographies of a ship HMS Temeraire a man The Admiral Benbow The Life And Times Of A Naval Legend and a battle The Glorious First of June More accurately though this book is a biography of two great ships both the great Second rate depicted in Turner's painting and the French built 74 gun ship of the line captured at the spectacular British victory at the Battle of Lagos during the Seven Years War and of the many men who served and died aboard them In this Willis absolutely succeeds devoting each chapter of the book to a specific vignette or aspect of command or life aboard ship in a way which helps to simplify what might otherwise have been a very complex history In doing so he addresses the key points in the histories of the two ships such as the second Temeraire's decisive actions at Trafalgar service in the Baltic mutiny and post war retirement as a prison hulk and victualing depot On doing so he uses the story of the two Temeraires to a tell a greater narrative that of the triumph of the Royal Navy during the late 18thearly 19th centuries and the eventual twilight of the great age of fighting sail The story is a fascinating one well worth the telling and Willis does so in a way that is highly accessible to non technically minded readers entertaining and robust in its scholarship