HMS Polyphemus (1881)
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HMS Polyphemus (1881)
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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 Th
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Victorian Royal Navy warship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Polyphemus_(1881)
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2023-08-16T10:20:41Z
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