HMS Polyphemus (1881) HMS Polyphemus (1881) The third HMS "Polyphemus" was a Royal Navy torpedo ram, serving from 1881 until 1903. A shallow-draft, fast, low-profile vessel, she was designed to penetrate enemy harbours at speed and sink anchored ships. Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby primarily as a protected torpedo boat, the ram was provided very much as secondary armament. It has been suggested that H. G. 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 ironclad torpedo ram, and "Polyphemus" was the only ship
Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) 2007 crossover, Sci-Fi is the first to make an effective attack on Cobra's enslaved Transformer troopers, shooting Frenzy through the eye. He is assisted in this by Flash. Sci-Fi first appeared in the second season "" episode "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" Pt. 1. He was voiced by Jerry Houser. In the episode, he and Low-Light upstage Wetsuit and Leatherneck during target practice. In the episode "My Brother's Keeper," Sci-Fi accompanies Sgt. Slaughter in a mission to prevent Doctor Mindbender and the Dreadnoks from abducting a handicapped scientist named Dr. Jeremy Penser from a science fiction convention. When Slaughter goes to get