HMS Thunder Child "Star Vikings", shows the influence of the Jeff Wayne image of the ironclad, combined with a 19th-century image of the Martian war machine. Details also appear in the TNE products "Path of Tears" and "Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide". A novel by Nick Pope, concerning the UK's response to UFOs, is named "Operation: Thunder Child". There is an adaptation novel set in the Victorian UK of 1898. It is called, "The Last Days of Thunder Child" by C.A. Powell. HMS Thunder Child HMS "Thunder Child" is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H.
HMS Thunder Child 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". In Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation, the ship is described as an ironclad but not specifically a ram or a torpedo ram; the album cover art illustration of "Thunder Child" is of a pre-dreadnought battleship such as the "Canopus"-class in combat with a Martian tripod. The ship is also depicted in art in the "Classics Illustrated" comic book adaptation of the novel, also