Henrique Alvim Corrêa's Torpedo-Boat vs. Martian Tripod, War of the Worlds 1906

Naval warfare meets extraterrestrial invasion technology as a torpedo-boat destroyer — humanity's most advanced weapon of the era — makes a desperate suicidal charge against a towering Martian fighting-machine wading through the Thames estuary. The warship is already breaking apart under the alien's heat-ray, its hull splitting catastrophically as smoke and debris erupt skyward. The Martian tripod looms at right, grotesquely mechanical, dwarfing the doomed vessel in a masterpiece of atmospheric dread rendered in smoldering sepia tones.