Oil painting by Antonio de Simone, showing HMS 'Temeraire' her making her way seaward in Grand Harbour with Fort St Michael on the right and Dockyard Creek beyond. This is the third of the five ships which have borne the name 'Temeraire' in the Royal Navy. She was an iron-hulled screw battleship launched at Chatham Dockyard 1876, with partly experimental armament including two muzzle-loading 25-ton disappearing guns, which after firing sank below deck for reloading. She was commissioned in 1877 and apart from the winter of 1887-88, when in the Channel Fleet, spent the next 14 years in the Mediterranean, including being one of the major units engaged at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. On 3 October 1890 she was the last ship of the Royal Navy to stand into harbour under sail alone at Suda Bay, Crete (which took her five hours) and she paid off at Devonport in 1891. Thereafter she was in reserve and in 1904 became part of the 'Indus' stoker training establishment as 'Indus II'. In 1915, renamed 'Akbar', she became a reformatory ship at Liverpool, then a depot ship, and was sold for breaking in May 1921.