Email. She was extensively refitted at Plymouth between September 1819 and June 1820 at a cost of £27,733, and then sailed to Sheerness Dockyard. While HMS Temeraire herself is only briefly featured, the ship becomes the namesake of the series' main character, a large black dragon who sees naval and aerial action alongside his British captain. [5][a], She was primarily made from English oak from nearby Hainault Forest. It has received a fair amount of positive attention from its first exhibit to the Royal Academy in 1837 up until now. Nevertheless, the account was popular and a print was rushed out purporting to show Harvey taking the lead in clearing Temeraire's decks of enemy seamen. He had already included a glimpse of the ship in a large painting of 1806, The Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory (Tate, London), and in adopting its nickname, the ‘Fighting’ Temeraire, he explicitly acknowledged its action at the battle which, over 30 years later, continued to be commemorated in literature and art. [69], Temeraire's service as a prison ship lasted until 1819, at which point she was selected for conversion to a receiving ship. This act of mutiny eventually failed and a number of those responsible were tried and executed. Though no known contemporary image of her in the prison ship role exists, she was painted while a guardship on the Medway in 1833 by Edward William Cooke, and by William Beatson and J. J. Williams while laid up at Rotherhithe in 1838. Fougueux's captain, Louis Alexis Baudoin, had suffered a fatal wound earlier in the fighting, leaving Commander François Bazin in charge. While laid up the decision was taken to convert her into a prison ship to alleviate overcrowding caused by large influxes of French prisoners from the Peninsular War campaigns. [44] Temeraire narrowly escaped destruction when a grenade thrown from Redoutable exploded on her maindeck, nearly igniting the after-magazine. Roy and Lesley Adkins offer a third account: twenty mutineers were tried, all were found guilty and eighteen were sentenced to death, and the other two were to receive one hundred and twenty lashes each. "[40], Temeraire then rammed into Redoutable, dismounting many of the French ship's guns, and worked her way alongside, after which her crew lashed the two ships together. The Temeraire series is a historical fantasy/alternate history written by Naomi Novik. [68] Conversion work was carried out at Plymouth between November and December 1813, after which she was laid up in the River Tamar as a prison hulk. Eventually Rear Admiral Campbell came down to speak to the men, and having informed them that the officers did not know the destination of the ship, he ordered them to disperse. "[36] Nelson's instruction was followed up by a formal signal and Harvey dropped back reluctantly, but otherwise kept within one ship's length of Victory as she sailed up to the Franco-Spanish line. When he died in 1851 he bequeathed it and the rest of the paintings he owned to the nation. He never sold it, instead keeping it in his studio along with many of his other canvases. Around it, small French fishing boats (‘poissards’) head out to sea. Campbell ordered the remaining crew to abandon any mutinous actions, and deprived of its leaders, the mutiny collapsed, though the officers were on their guard for several days afterwards and the marines were ordered to carry out continuous patrols. The ship was sold for £5530 to John Beatson, a Rotherhithe shipbreaker and timber merchant. 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