The 25th of November: The Tragedy of HMS Barham

November 25th 1941, while preparing to cover operations against Italian Convoys in the Mediterranean Sea, the Queen Elizabeth Class Dreadnought, HMS Barham was struck by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331. As the battleship began to capsize Barham was torn apart by a massive explosion caused by her 4in and 15in Magazines. Of her crew of 1,311, only 450 would survive.

Artist: Enya
Song: Evacuee
Subject: HMS Barham

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[MegaGojira3000]

Germans did a good Job. Dear Barham... rest in Pieces.

[trackend]

Sod the arguing this post is about those young guys who lost their lives on Barham I will never forget until the day I die then I hope there will be others to carry on remembering. we forget WW2 & 1 at our peril.

[metallicafanfjdk]

5 people have no souls.

[Tull29]

Queen Elizabeth Class, the most long lived class of it's early and extended time. Built to travel and defend colonial interests. So well designed that these vessels were able to be upgraded and survive two world wars, Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Warspite, Barham, Malaya.

The British 15" naval cannon was a world beater in it's time and so were the men who served on those vessels.

Impressive till this day!

[Digmen1]

Great video thanks.

Some beautiful photos of the Barham.

It was also nice to see the photos of some of the crew.

Yes they were all brave lads.

I remember a WWII documentary series on tv and every episode started with a clip of the Barham blowing up.

Its a shame all these posts get clogged up with so much hatred and bigotry.

I enjoy talking about the ships and the weapons etc.

[SteveAlexRogerLewis]

Are people really still arguing about the war? Veterans from both sides have become friends, and you can't just admit that they were mistakes made in the past? People make me sick.

[MegaGojira3000]

@16891291616 Wenn Du mit Großdeutschland die Großindustrie meinst, dann magst Du Recht haben.

[16891291616]

Die Stunde hat geschlagen,

Britanens Macht zerbricht!

Durch U-Bootmänner Kühnheit,

Großdeutschlands Stärke lebt!

[pramboy09]

@trackend i am quite aware of sarcasm, pretty hard to tell when i haven't seen the little spat you are having. but i would hardly call bloody sunday insignificant, yes compared to ww2 deaths it is minimal but hardly insignificant.

[trackend]

@pramboy09 Its called sarcasm, of course the British werent cowardly my old man was in the Navy in combined ops in WW2 what pissed me off is that jumped up little twat Grandeur Fransciase trying to bring in a insignificate incident like Bloody Sunday & before some one complains, compared to 54 million plus war deaths it was insignificant.

[pramboy09]

@trackend sorry how were the british cowardly?

[MegaGojira3000]

@suitsconverse "sunk by us"... us ??? Are you a WW2 Veteran?