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HMS Thunder Child
HMS ''Thunder Child'' is the name of the fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' ''The War of the Worlds'', while protecting a refugee fleet.
==Historical basis==
Torpedo rams were constructed in the 1870s and 1880s after the ramming and sinking of the ''Re d'Italia'' at the Battle of Lissa in 1866 by the Austrian flagship, ''Ferdinand Max''. Despite the Italian warship being stationary at the time, the successful attack influenced naval thinking for the next few decades.
The result was specially-designed low profile, fast, armoured vessels equipped with a ram or torpedoes, or both, intended for use where it was possible to approach an enemy ship without being sunk; for example at night or in poor visibility, or where the enemy ship was stationary or disabled, or lacked support by nearby ships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Torpedo Ram )〕 As late as 1896 the United States commissioned a ship whose only effective weapon was a ram, the harbour-defence ram USS ''Katahdin''.
The Royal Navy's only example was HMS ''Polyphemus'' which entered service in 1882. Its primary armament was torpedoes, with four side-firing tubes and one forward-firing tube in the centre of the bow-mounted ram, like the eye of a Cyclops — hence the ship's name of Polyphemus. The ram was fitted in case the then-novel underwater torpedo tubes failed to operate properly. After the ship successfully destroyed a harbour defence boom with her ram in 1885, the Royal Navy ordered two further ships of this class; but neither ship was built, probably because the deployment of quick-firing traversing guns made these vessels vulnerable.〔
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