The Fighting Temeraire by Edward Fraser

This article looks into the glorious history of the HMS Temeraire and includes interesting information about how the British artist, J.M.W. Turner, came to immortalise the ship in his famous painting '‘The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838’. It is one of the chapters in the 1907 book Famous Fighters of the Fleet by Edward Fraser. (2.2 MiB, PDF, 76 pages)

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