HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as a flagship and participated in the Battle of Jutl
Barham underway at low speed, mid-1930s
Aerial view of Barham in Scapa Flow, 1917
Barham leading Malaya and the aircraft carrier Argus in the late-1920s
Barham in the Mediterranean
German submarine U-331 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II, famous for sinking the battleship HMS Barham.
HMS Barham (04)
…1941 and was damaged by German aircraft two months later during the evacuation of Crete. Barham was sunk off the Egyptian coast that November by the German submarine U-331 with the loss of 862 crewmen, approximately two thirds of her crew. The Queen Elizabeth-class ships were designed to form a fast squadron for the fleet…
HMS Barham's main magazines explode, 25 November 1941