HMS Thunderer
1875 Sister ship to HMS Devastation.
1876 Suffered a fatal boiler explosion on 14th July 1876.
1885 'In 1885, H.M.S. Thunderer, one of the first warships to carry an electrical installation, was equipped with a 21-h.p. open-type, twin-cylinder steam engine driving a two-pole, Gramme, ring-wound direct-connected dynamo, the whole weighing 5 1/2 tons. The steam pressure was only 15 lb. per square inch, the speed 300 r.p.m., and the output of the generator was 150 amperes at 80 volts.'[1]
1891 The turret monitor Thunderer was fitted with new armament, changes to her hull and new triple-expansion engines by Maudslay, Sons and Field in place of the original simple-expansion engines.
1911 New ship launched, a Dreadnought-class vessel built by Thames Iron Works, Shipbuilding and Engineering Co which was the last Royal Navy ship built on the Thames.
1926 Sold for scrap.