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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 61990, member: 23&quot;]The poster on the easel looks to me like <i>...emeraire.&nbsp; </i>I found a reference to a famous British ship, The Temeraire.&nbsp; It&#039;s possible an early movie was made about it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>From the article:</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>Temeraire</i> became the subject of a number of poems and songs commemorating her life and fate. An early work by James Duff written between 1813 and 1819 referenced her role as a prison ship, and was set to music in 1857 under the title <i>The Brave Old Temeraire</i>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798)#cite_note-Willis263-65" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798)#cite_note-Willis263-65" rel="nofollow">[65]</a> More generally, an anonymous poem entitled <i>The Wooden Walls of Old England</i> appeared in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%27s_Magazine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%27s_Magazine" rel="nofollow">Fraser&#039;s Magazine</a></i> shortly after <i>Temeraire</i>‍ &#039;s arrival at Rotherhithe, and lamented the fate of the great sailing warships.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798)#cite_note-Willis263-65" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798)#cite_note-Willis263-65" rel="nofollow">[65]</a> Turner&#039;s painting created an enduring interest in the story of the <i>Temeraire</i> and several poems appeared in the decades following her breaking up. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey" rel="nofollow">Gerald Massey</a> wrote <i>The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth</i>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville" rel="nofollow">Herman Melville</a> produced <i>The Temeraire</i>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Newbolt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Newbolt" rel="nofollow">Henry Newbolt</a> wrote <i>The Fighting Temeraire</i>, with its closing lines</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the sunset&#039;s breezes shiver,</p><p>And she&#039;s fading down the river,</p><p>But in England&#039;s song forever,</p><p>She&#039;s the Fighting Temeraire[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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