HMS Thunder Child HMS Thunder Child HMS "Thunder Child" is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" whilst protecting a refugee rescue fleet of civilian vessels. Torpedo rams were constructed in the 1870s and 1880s after the ramming and sinking of the "Re d'Italia" at the Battle of Lissa in 1866 by the Austrian flagship, "Ferdinand Max". Despite the Italian warship being stationary at the time, the successful attack influenced naval thinking for the next few decades. The result was specially designed low profile, fast, armoured vessels equipped
Avengers in Sci-Fi covering "Mickey Mouse March." 2009 also saw tours with bands The Hiatus and Nothing's Carved in Stone, and for the band to release their first release with a major label, Victor Entertainment, with their second EP "Jupiter Jupiter". The band were subsequently picked as one of the iTunes Japan "Sound of 2010" break-through artists. In 2010, the band released their third album, "Dynamo", led by the single "Delight Slight Lightspeed," which debuted at #20 on Oricon's daily singles charts. Avengers in Sci-Fi The band members were all classmates at a high school in Kanagawa. They formed the band in 2002,