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Featured articleHMS Temeraire (1798) is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 22, 2011Good article nomineeListed
December 6, 2011WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
January 24, 2012Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 21, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that J. M. W. Turner's painting of HMS Temeraire (pictured) has been voted Britain's favourite painting?
Current status: Featured article

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Téméraire or Temeraire? -- ALoan (Talk) 30 June 2005 09:39 (UTC)

The latter. 81.105.27.137 17:12, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BBC ran a program on this Temeraire that I listened to most of, interested parties can hear it on Listen Again for a while. --zippedmartin 16:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What is the meaning of the material surrounding the ship in Turner's painting? Radio Sharon (talk) 14:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bank Note Reproduction

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I think a statement such as "A reproduction of the painting appears on the back of the Bank of England £20 note issued in 2020" really should have a citation or two.Astrohoundy (talk) 00:43, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

... and inclusion in the body of the article, not just the Lead summary. Davidships (talk) 02:12, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

service in 1809

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According to Peter Goodwin in The ships of Trafalgar p. 44 Temeraire was off Lisbon in May 1809, and returned to Plymouth on 2 January 1811. So when exactly was she sent to the baltic ? Mr.Lovecraft (talk) 11:04, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Name meaning

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Téméraire means 'Reckless'. If that's not mentioned already, it should be. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.188.177.247 (talk) 19:53, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]