After the Force “H” action at Dakar in September 1940, Barham joined Cunningham’s Eastern Mediterranean Fleet based in Alexandria, exactly when is unsure. My father, Surgeon-Commander E.R ...

Two days later HMS Barham was torpedoed by U-331 at 4.15 pm on November 25th, 1941 some 55 miles NNE of Sidi Barani. My father lost his life along with 862 of his shipmates. There were 396 ...

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 ...

"I remember so many faces of my friends and shipmates who weren't as fortunate as me." HMS Barham, on which Richard was serving as an able seaman, was covering an attack on an Italian convoy ...

My great uncle, Frank Osborne died aged 22 on the HMS Barham which was torpedoed by a German U-boat in November 1941. I have tried to find out how many of the men were from Sheffield and have a ...

Scroll down for more... Helen Duncan had a vision the HMS Barham would be involved in a wartime tragedy A group of mediums have handed a petition to the Scottish Parliament, calling on it to lobby ...

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 ...

Beside the nave altar in Westminster Abbey are two standard candlesticks given in memory of those lost when the battleship HMS Barham was torpedoed during the Second World War with the loss of 868 of ...