• ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Thunder, while an eleventh was planned but never built: HMS Thunder (1695) was a 5-gun bomb vessel launched...
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  • HMS Thunderer : HMS Thunderer (1760) was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1760. Battle honour: 'Achille 1761'. She was wrecked in 1780. HMS Thunderer (1783)...
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    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...
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    HMS Thunderer was one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before...
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    HMS Thunderer was the fourth and last Orion-class dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career...
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  • contract for Conqueror was awarded on 15 August to John Brown, and that of Thunderer was scheduled for 15 November for Fairfield. After the start of the Second...
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  • HMS Thunderer was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in 1783. She carried 74-guns, being classified as a third rate. During her service she took...
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  • JF-17 Thunder, an advanced multirole fighter aircraft developed by China and Pakistan HMS Thunder (1855), an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery HMS Thunder...
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    Wells’ fictional HMS Thunder Child from his novel The War of the Worlds may have been based on this ship, in part because he described Thunder Child as an...
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  • S-55 torpedoed and sank her on 12 March 1943 in the Strait of Sicily. HMS Thunder Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy:...
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  • Thunderchild (redirect from Thunder-child)
    Thunderchild, Thunder Child or variant, may refer to: Thunderchild First Nation, a Cree tribe and Indian reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada HMS Thunder Child, a...
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  • the bomb-ketch HMS Thunder and posted to Admiral Vernon's squadron in the West Indies. In 1742 he became captain of the fourth-rate HMS Lichfield. On his...
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  • HMS Carnatic(74), HMS Thunder(reportedly a 74 gun ship-of-the-line, but only Thunder in service at the time was an 8 gun vessel), HMS Queen(98), HMS Maidstone(32)...
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    vessel for the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Renamed HMS Thunder in 1775, she was captured back by the French in 1778. Racehorse was originally...
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    boilers were salvaged from the first Aetna. Admiralty records for Meteor, Thunder, Glatton and Trusty state that both the Mare and the Green yards were at...
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  • HMS Thunder was an 8-gun bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, previously the mercantile Dasher. Dasher, launched at Bideford in 1800, had made two voyages as...
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  • HMS Thunder was a 13-gun bomb vessel, used by the Royal Navy for cruising and land bombardment duties between 1719 and 1734. Constructed for the Spanish...
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    available for the task were HMS Canopus, HMS Standard, HMS Thunderer, HMS Glatton, and the two bomb ships HMS Lucifer and HMS Meteor, under the command...
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  • HMS Comet (1828) was an 18-gun Comet-class sloop launched in 1828, renamed Comus in 1832, and broken up 1862. HMS Comet was the former HMS Thunderer,...
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    Gambier to commander on 9 March 1778 and gave him command of the bomb ship HMS Thunder, which was promptly dismasted and surrendered to the French. He was taken...
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  • bankruptcy Thunder Cloud – Struan's record setting first ship to arrive in Hong Kong from London after the establishment of British Hong Kong Royal Navy HMS Vengeance...
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  • Colt M1877, a double-action revolver The Thunderer, a nickname for the British newspaper The Times HMS Thunderer, the name of a number of British naval...
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    HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich. She earned a battle honour in a single-ship...
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    The four Orion-class dreadnought battleships, HMS Orion, HMS Monarch, HMS Conqueror, and HMS Thunderer, were the first British super-dreadnoughts. The...
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    The two British Devastation-class battleships of the 1870s, HMS Devastation and HMS Thunderer, were the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did...
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    Receiving ship at Woolwich from May 1843 Fate: Broken up by 20 November 1857 HMS Thunder Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 18 May 1819 Laid down: November 1826...
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    makeshift fleet of refugee ships. Tripods attack, but a torpedo ram, the HMS Thunder Child, destroys two of them before being destroyed itself (a third is...
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    far exceeded its utility as a concept for a fighting ship. The heroic HMS Thunder Child in H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds is...
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    merchant ships in the Baltic, with the assistance of the bomb vessel HMS Thunder and two gun-brigs. They left Karlskrona that day and on 20 October they...
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    HMS Thunderer was a two-deck 84-gun second rate ship of the line, a modified version of the Canopus/Formidable-class launched on 22 September 1831 at...
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