HMS Barham (1914)
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 24 February 1913 |
| Launched: | 31 October 1914 |
| Commissioned: | 19 October 1915 |
| Fate: | Sunk 25 November 1941 |
| General Characteristics (original configuration) | |
| Displacement: | 29,150t standard; 33,000t full load |
| Length: | 643ft 3in (196m) |
| Beam: | 104ft (31.7m) |
| Draught: | 33ft (10m) |
| Propulsion: | 24 Babcock & Wilcox 3-drum boilers, 4 parsons geared turbines, 4 shafts |
| Speed: | 25kts (when commissioned) |
| Range: | 8,600nm at 12.5kts |
| Complement: | 1,124–1,184 |
| Armament: | 8-15in (4x2), 14-6in, 2-12pdr, 4-21in TT |
| Armor: | 6–13in midships belt, 2.5–5in deck, 13in turret face, 11in conning tower sides |
HMS Barham was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy named after Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, built at the John Brown shipyards in Clydebank, and launched in 1914.
In World War I, she collided with her sister-ship Warspite in 1915. In 1916, she was Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas's flagship of the 5th Battle Squadron temporarily attached to Admiral David Beatty's Battlecruiser Fleet at the battle of Jutland, where she received five hits and fired 337 shells.
In World War II she operated in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. She was damaged by a German submarine torpedo in December 1939, while at sea north of the British Isles. In September 1940, she engaged the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar, Senegal. Barham was in the Mediterranean in 1941, taking part in the battle of Cape Matapan in March and receiving bomb damage in May. On 25 November 1941, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys, Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331, commanded by Lieutenant Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen. As she rolled over to port, her after magazines exploded and the ship quickly sank with the loss of over two-thirds of her crew.
See HMS Barham for other ships of this name.
External links
- Page on Barham from battleships-cruisers.co.uk (http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/barham.htm)
- The site of HMS Barham Survivors Association (http://www.watersideweb.co.uk/Barham/)
- A site dedicated to images of HMS Barham and her sinking (http://www.worldisround.com/articles/16107/index.html)
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