Dates: 1907 - 1921
HMS Temeraire was a Bellerophon-class battleship in the Royal Navy built at the Royal Dockyard, Devonport.
She was ordered under the 1906 Naval Estimates at the cost of ?1,641,114. Although not externally much different from predecessor HMS Dreadnought, internally she and others of the Bellerophon-class were much improved, with better sub-division of bulkheads against torpedo attack. A heavier secondary armament was believed to be capable of fighting off torpedo boat attacks.
For the majority of the war, Temeraire was a member of the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet. On a sweep of the North Sea on 18 March 1915, she unsuccessfully attempted to ram U-29 which had just attacked HMS Neptune. During the summer of that year, she refitted at HM Dockyard, Devonport.
At the Battle of Jutland, Temeraire, under the command of Captain E.V. Underhill, fired 54 12 inch shells and received no damage. In October 1918, she was detached to the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron under the overall command of Vice-Admiral Gough-Calthrope.
Post war
With the end of hostilities Temeraire was converted to a cadet training ship (seagoing). With the other members of her class, she was regarded as obsolete and was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1921.
Five ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Temeraire:
HMS Temeraire was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line captured from the French in 1759 and sold in 1784.
HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate launched in 1798. She was used as a prison ship from 1813, a receiving ship from 1820 and was sold for breaking up in 1838.
HMS Temeraire was an iron-hulled screw-propelled ship launched in 1876. She became a training ship and was renamed Indus II in 1904, Akbar in 1915, and was sold in 1921.
HMS Temeraire was a Bellerophon class battleship launched in 1907 and sold in 1921.
HMS Temeraire was to have been a Lion class battleship. She was laid down in 1939 but construction was suspended later that year, and she was cancelled in 1944.
HMS Temeraire was the Upper Yardmen training establishment at Port Edgar, South Queensferry, Scotland between 1955 and 1960.
HMS Temeraire is the Directorate of Naval Physical Training and Sport(DNPTS) in Portsmouth. It was established in 1910 and commissioned as HMS Temeraire in 1971.
