The Fighting Temeraire

The extraordinary story of the mighty Temeraire , the ship behind J. M. W. Turner's iconic painting. The H.M.S. Temeraire , one of Britain’s most illustrious fighting ships, is known to millions through J. M. W. Turner’s masterpiece, The Fighting Temeraire (1839), 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. This tale of two ships spans the heyday of th