JAN 28, 1942: The hardy-but-hapless HMS Barham was revealed to have sunk – with her explosion caught on camera – on this day in 1942 following two months of official silence. The battleship, which had ...

A month after the onset of WW2, HMS Barham and the other battleships of 1st Battle Squadron were taken from the Mediterranean Fleet to re-inforce the Home Fleet. By the end of 1939, the only British ...

Stories categorised in 'HMS Barham'. These stories may contain references to other themes. However, on Christmas Eve, I met with Hearson ashore and we had a quiet evening enjoying good food and... The ...

The attack on HMS Barham by a German U-boat in November 1941 cost the lives of more than 860 British sailors. Len Chivers, 99, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, witnessed the sinking of the battleship from ...

Richard Laland is one of only two survivors from the doomed battleship HMS Barham still alive today. The 92-year-old, from Leicester, miraculously escaped death when the ship was sunk by a German ...

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The following are extracts from censored letters written from the Barham by my father, Surgeon-Commander E.R.Sorley, RN a month or so prior to Matapan. They give an insight to life on the ship during ...

In Remember When 57, we carry the story of George Marshall, who married Joyce Sharples. The couple had never met, although they were both from Gatshead, but after a two-year courtship, by letter, as ...