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Temeraire or Téméraire (French for "reckless") may refer to: * HMS ''Temeraire'', several ships of the Royal Navy * French ship ''Téméraire'', several ships of the French Navy * Téméraire-class ship of the line, a class of ships designed and built for the French Navy * ''The Fighting Temeraire'', a painting by J. M. W. Turner * ''Temeraire'' (series), a series of alternate history/fantasy novels by Naomi Novik ** ''His Majesty's Dragon ''His Majesty's Dragon'', published in the UK as ''Temeraire'', is the first novel in the '' Temeraire'' alternate history/fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik. The story is set during an alternate-history version of the Napoleonic Wars ...
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HMS Temeraire
Six 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'' (French for "reckless") from the French in 1759: * was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line captured from the French after the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759 and sold in 1784. * HMS ''Temeraire'' was a cutter or xebec that captured in 1795 in the Mediterranean. The French Navy had commissioned her in October 1793 as the 6-gun ''Révolutionaire'' and renamed her ''Téméraire'' in 1794. She served under this name until being broken up in 1803. * was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1798. She fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and was later used as a prison ship and then a receiving ship, and was broken up in 1838, recorded in '' The Fighting Temeraire Tugged To Her Last Berth To Be Broken Up'' by J.M.W Turner. * was an iron-hulled screw-propelled ship launched in 1876. She carried two disappearing guns on board. ...
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French Ship Téméraire
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Téméraire-class Ship Of The Line
The ''Téméraire''-class ships of the line were a class of a hundred and twenty 74-gun ships of the line ordered between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy or its attached navies in dependent (French-occupied) territories. Although a few of these were cancelled, the type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built to a single design. The class was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané in 1782 as a development of the ''Annibal'' and her near-sister ''Northumberland'', both of which had been designed by him and built at Brest during the 1777-1780 period. Some thirteen ships were ordered and built to this new design from 1782 to 1785, and then the same design was adopted as a standard for all subsequent 74-gun ships (the most common type of ship of the line throughout the period from ''ca.'' 1750 to 1830) built for the French Navy during the next three decades as part of the fleet expansion programme instituted by Jean-Charles de Borda in 1786. The design was ap ...
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The Fighting Temeraire
''The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbul ..., painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire (1798), HMS ''Temeraire'', one of the last second-rate ship of the line, ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final Berth (moorings), berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap. The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851, as part of the J. M. W. Turner#Legacy, Turner Bequest. In a poll organised ...
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Temeraire (series)
''Temeraire'' is a series of nine alternate history fantasy novels written by American author Naomi Novik. The novels follow the adventures of Captain William Laurence and his dragon, the eponymous Temeraire, and reimagine events of the Napoleonic Wars with "an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators". ''His Majesty's Dragon'', the first entry in the series, won the Compton Crook Award in 2007 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel the same year. ''Temeraire: In the Service of the King'', an omnibus volume collecting the first three novels, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. ''Temeraire'' was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. Novels * ''His Majesty's Dragon'' (2006) / ''Temeraire'' (UK) * ''Throne of Jade'' (2006) * '' Black Powder War'' (2006) * ''Empire of Ivory'' (2007) * ''Victory of Eagles'' (2008) * ''Tongues of Serpents'' (2010) * '' Crucible of Gold'' (2012) * '' Blood of Tyrants'' (2013) * '' League of Dragons'' ...
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