Oak table made from the timber of HMS 'Temeraire'. Parquetry top with an inscribed brass plate in the centre. On bobbin-turned legs with similar centre stretcher. The 98-gun, second-rate 'Temeraire' was built at Chatham in 1796-99 and broken up by John Beatson at Rotherhithe in autumn 1838. The ship immediately followed 'Victory' into action in Nelson's windward line at Trafalgar in 1805 and played a notable part there. Turner's painting of the 'Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth' (1839, now in the National Gallery) commemorates her tow from Sheerness to the breaker's on 5-6 September 1838, after which many items were made from her timber. They include this table, which belonged to her Trafalgar captain, Eliab Harvey, and two other items in the Museum collection. The Museum also has a smaller table, AAA3189 (which was made earlier) and an oak barometer, NAV0785. [Entry augmented PvdM 2/11]