HMS Thunder Child around the "Thunder Child". The player is placed in control of the ironclad itself and must sail it down a river while using its cannons to destroy Martian units and settlements; the level ends in a climactic confrontation with the Tempest, a powerful Martian war machine. The only version to feature "Thunder Child" directly is the low-budget, direct-to-DVD Pendragon adaptation, released in 2005. This version uses poorly executed CGI to portray "Thunder Child" as a "Havock"-class destroyer; it reverses the order of the ship's attack, using its guns first before successfully ramming in both cases. The vessel eventually sinks from
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