“Moving swiftly through the waters
Cannons blazing as she came
Brought a mighty metal War-Lord
Crashing down in sheets of flame”
– Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds.
The first book of the War of the Worlds details how HMS Thunder Child occupies the Martians long enough for Royal Navy ironclads from the Channel Fleet to arrive….and then it ends.
Now its time to find out what actually happened to the fleet.
Tags: Ironclads, Tripods, War of the Worlds, Martians, Victorian, HMS Thunder Child, Channel Fleet, Vice Admiral Sir Harry Rawson