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Using HMS Renown as a Thunder Child reference

A late-Victorian HMS Renown provides a practical reference for balancing Thunder Child's guns, armour, shallow draft, and speed.

6-inch Guns 10-inch Guns 15-inch Torpedoes Armour Belts Deck Armour Harvey Armour HMS Renown 1895 Naval Architecture Naval Armour Naval Gunnery Naval Propulsion Pre-Dreadnoughts Royal Navy Shallow Draught Ship Speed Triple Expansion Engines Warship Design

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The 1895 HMS Renown provides the closest historical design cue for the fictional ship. Her ten-inch guns, eight-inch belt, roughly three-inch deck protection, and nineteen-knot speed offer a baseline for a build intended to ram at higher speed. Harvey armour and triple-expansion machinery keep the design within late-Victorian technological limits. The exercise makes the trade-off clear: adding speed and a shallow profile quickly consumes the weight available for armour, machinery, and weapons.