Timeraire ???

Subject: Timeraire ???
From:
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 08:24 AM

Hi! I'm looking something about ship called "Timeraire" and about shanties about it. Perheaps the name "Timeraire" is not correct. I can't find in internet simmiliar words to this name. Can anyone help me? Please write e-mail directly to [e-mail]

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Subject: RE: Timeraire ???
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 09:16 AM

That would be "Téméraire", as in Turner's painting The Fighting Téméraire.  You can see the painting at  The Web Gallery of Art.  There's a poem by Herman Melville,  The Fighting Téméraire,  and an article by Terri Weldy,  19th Century England,  which has some background information setting the painting in context.  The Téméraire had been at the Battle of the Nile and, under Captain Eliab Harvey, famously went to Nelson's assistance at the Battle of Trafalgar.  The ship was broken up at Rotherhithe on the Thames in 1838; Turner showed it being taken there by a steam-tug.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Timeraire ???
From:
Date: 22 Jun 00 - 05:39 AM

Thanks a lot! It was very helpfull 4 me. :-)

Subject: RE: Timeraire ???
From: IanC
Date: 22 Jun 00 - 07:06 AM

This is the only ballad I could find. By Sir Henry John Newbolt

The Fighting Téméraire

IT was eight bells ringing,

For the morning watch was done,

And the gunner's lads were singing

As they polished every gun.

It was eight bells ringing,

And the gunner's lads were singing,

For the ship she rode a-swinging,

As they polished every gun.

           Oh! to see the linstock lighting,

                     Téméraire! Téméraire!

           Oh! to hear the round shot biting,

                          Téméraire! Téméraire!

           Oh! to see the linstock lighting,

           And to hear the round shot biting,

           For we're all in love with fighting

                     On the fighting Téméraire.

It was noontide ringing,

And the battle just begun,

When the ship her way was winging,

As they loaded every gun.

It was noontide ringing,

When the ship her way was winging,

And the gunner's lads were singing

As they loaded every gun.

           There'll be many grim and gory,

                     Téméraire! Téméraire!

           There'll be few to tell the story,

                     Téméraire! Téméraire!

           There'll be many grim and gory,

           There'll be few to tell the story,

           But we'll all be one in glory

                     With the Fighting Téméraire.

There's a far bell ringing

At the setting of the sun,

And a phantom voice is singing

Of the great days done.

There's a far bell ringing,

And a phantom voice is singing

Of renown for ever clinging

To the great days done.

           Now the sunset breezes shiver,

                     Téméraire! Téméraire!

           And she's fading down the river,

                     Téméraire! Téméraire!

           Now the sunset's breezes shiver,

           And she's fading down the river,

           But in England's song for ever

                     She's the Fighting Téméraire.

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Cheers! IanC