My personal commentary on my book the Fighting Temeraire, which tells the story of the ship in JMW Turner's most famous painting The Fighting Temeraire. We are up to chapter 9! This is entitled The Retired Temeraire and tells the story of how the Temeraire finished up her active service in the Royal Navy but went on to have a fascinating after-life, including a significant period of time as a prison-ship housing hundreds of miserable prisoners of war.