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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Lion-class battleship (redirect from HMS Thunderer (1939))
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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Aetna-class ironclad floating battery (redirect from HMS Thunder (1855))
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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