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 ...
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 ...
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 ...