Fictional warship in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
"Thunder Child" redirects here. For other uses, see Thunderchild.
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A Henrique Alvim Corrêa illustration from a 1906 edition of the book.
HMS Thunder Child is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds whilst protecting a refugee rescue fleet of civilian vessels. It has been suggested[1] that Thunder Child was based on HMS Polyphemus, which was the sole torpedo ram to see service with the Royal Navy from 1881 to 1903.
^Bennighof, Mike (April 2008). "Great War of the Worlds at Sea". Avalanche Press. Retrieved 29 January 2009.
Thunderchild, ThunderChild or variant, may refer to: Thunderchild First Nation, a Cree tribe and Indian reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada HMSThunderChild, a fictional...
exceeded its utility as a concept for a fighting ship. The heroic HMSThunderChild in H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds is a torpedo...
ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMSThunder, while an eleventh was planned but never built: HMSThunder (1695) was a 5-gun bomb vessel launched...
Soldier". Hunter was said to have been married to the first mate on HMSThunderChild. Notes Smith (2014), p. 67. Cawthorne (2011), p. 72. Cawthorne (2011)...
passage to Continental Europe. Tripods attack, but a torpedo ram, HMSThunderChild, destroys two of them before being destroyed itself (a third is either...
1971 USS Thomas Jefferson – Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson, 1997 HMSThunderChild – The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1897 SS Titan – Futility,...
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and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
ordered Captains Gordon and Brand of HMS Pearl and HMS Lyme to travel overland to Bath. Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS Pearl was given command of two commandeered...
commanding officer of HMS Brazen (F91); aviation writer Bill Sweetman, and Commander Patrick Walker, commanding officer of HMS Trafalgar (S107) a Royal...
took the surrender of several already shattered French ships. Finally HMSThunderer under Albemarle Bertie took no part in the initial action at all, standing...
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participated in school plays, including Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado and HMS Pinafore. Upon hearing the first hit single of the Beatles at age 14, he...
the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
which he records in a diary crammed with banalities about the weather, thunder, lightning and rain, in his opinion "the most memorable and remarkable...
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