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Jonahfor other, similarly-named pages.
Jonah was Sabbath's steam ship, named ironically for the Biblical Jonah. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street) Octan built the Jonah, and fitted it with a chameleon circuit which did not function properly. (PROSE: Sometime Never...) It was some twenty yards long and about twelve yards across. It allowed Sabbath to have a degree of time travel - able to travel seemingly anywhere on Earth and even into the Kingdom of Beasts but did not allow Sabbath to travel outside of Earth without losing his cohesion. This was greatly improved when Sabbath used the Eighth Doctor's second black heart, removing the issue of cohesion. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
Sabbath took the Jonah to Selonart, using it as a boat to sail the planet's seas (PROSE: The Infinity Race). The ship was manned by a crew of apes - possibly tamed Babewyns. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
A ship in the form of a police box landed in 1963. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
Soul and Zezanne took the Jonah after Sabbath's death and piloted it to London in 1963, where it adopted the form of a police box. By then, Soul, who resembled the First Doctor, had lost his memories and believed himself to be the Doctor and Zezanne to be his granddaughter Susan, thus providing a new start for the history of the Doctor in the post-War universe, (PROSE: Sometime Never...) following the wiping of the Time Lords from history. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell, The Adventuress of Henrietta Street) "The Doctor" began referring to his ship as the TARDIS, a name "Susan" made up from the initials. (TV: An Unearthly Child)