On November 24, 1941, the British 1st Battle Squadron - led by HMS Barham, Queen Elizabeth, and Valiant, and escorted by eight destroyers - sailed into the Central Mediterranean to intercept Italian ...

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When launched, HMS Barham was one of the most powerful battleships afloat but her distinguished career was brought to an end in 1941 by a torpedo from a German U-boat.

“The loss of HMS Barham, torpedoed off the coast of Egypt on 25 November 1941, was indeed kept quiet for a while, but letters of condolence were sent out to families of the 861 dead, asking them ...

Their targets were two battleships, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant, and an aircraft carrier that was expected to be in port but was absent.

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 ...

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 ...

A Royal Navy veteran has described witnessing one of the worst tragedies of World War Two. The attack on HMS Barham by a German U-boat in November 1941 cost the lives of more than 860 British ...

Because the sinking of HMS Barham was revealed, in strict confidence, only to the relatives of casualties, and not announced to the public until late January 1942, the Navy started to take an ...