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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Archive news footage shows the moment HMS Barham was struck by torpedoes in the Mediterranean during World War Two. The British Pathé clip of a news reel from the time, captured the attack by a German ...