HMS Thorndyke

HMS Thorndyke is a Town-class (Edinburgh-subclass) light cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in WWII. It is the official warship of Nerland.

History
HMS Thorndyke was ordered around 1935 to the Town-class light cruisers but to the specifications of the Edinburgh-subclass, joining HMS Edinburgh and HMS Belfast. The new light cruiser was laid down at John Brown shipyard in Glasgow around 1936 and was commissioned into the Royal Navy two years later. HMS Thorndyke was based at Scapa Flow for most of WWII before being transferred to the Pacific in 1944. In 1945 during an island-hopping mission, HMS Thorndyke and its fleet were attacked by Japanese aircraft. Due to recent measures by the Japanese forces, carrier aircraft were flown into ships and create damage known as "kamikazes" and the anti-aircraft guns were needed to shoot down the attacking planes.

HMS Thorndyke was under kamikaze attack for over two hours before being overcome by damage caused by kamikaze attacks, causing sever flooding, resulting in the ship listing and resulted in the crew abandoning ship. Reports of the magazines exploding as the ship keeled over like what happened to HMS Barham in 1940 have been been stated but the true nature of HMS Thorndyke's final moments is unknown. As of 1980, the wreck hasn't been discovered.

Basis
HMS Thorndyke is based off a Town-class light cruiser, especially the Edinburgh-subclass. The class was built with constrains of the 1930 London Naval Treaty and was split into three subclass, Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh with five, three and two built in their respective subclasses, making a total of ten constructed in total. The were in service from 1937, throughout WWII until 1960 when replaced by newer guided missile destroyers. Four of the ten were lost during WWII and the remainder were decommissioned. One, HMS Belfast, is preserved in near Tower Bridge in London as a museum ship.

Filming model
HMS Thorndyke's model is built from an Airfix 1:600 kit of HMS Belfast.

Trivia
HMS Thorndyke is a pure fictional warship. No warship of this name has existed.


 * Due to this, the fictional build count for the Town-class is eleven instead of ten in real life.

HMS Thorndyke being sent to the Pacific if a reference to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF), a massive task force made from British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand warships during the closing stages of WWII in the Pacific Ocean against the Imperial Japanese Navy.