HMS Thunder Child
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Thunder Child is the name of the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy that is destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells'' The War of the Worlds. It sacrificed itself to allow refugee vessels escape. In the novel, Wells gives only a rough description of the ship, describing her thus: About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad, very low in the water, almost, to my brother''s perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Thunder Child is the name of the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy that is destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells'' The War of the Worlds. It sacrificed itself to allow refugee vessels escape. In the novel, Wells gives only a rough description of the ship, describing her thus: About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad, very low in the water, almost, to my brother''s perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child. A few paragraphs later, it is said that "It was the torpedo ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping."