A number of artists visited the newly returned Trafalgar ships, including John Livesay, drawing master at the Royal Naval Academy. Livesay produced several sketches of battle-damaged ships, sending them to Nicholas Pocock to be used for Pocock's large paintings of the battle. "Temeraire" was one of the ships he sketched. Another visitor to Portsmouth was J. M. W. Turner. It is not known whether he visited "Temeraire", though he did go aboard "Victory", making preparatory notes and sketches and interviewing sailors who had been in the battle. The story of "Temeraire" had become firmly ingrained in the public mind, so much so that when the House of Commons passed a vote of thanks to the men who had fought at Trafalgar, only three were specifically named. Nelson, Collingwood, and Harvey of "Temeraire".