Chamberlain's famous "this country is at war with Germany" broadcast was delivered shortly after 11 in the morning. [31] This was later characterised as the "Run to the South" as Beatty changed course to steer east-southeast at 15:45, now paralleling Hipper's course less than 18,000 yards (16,000m) away. This is another problematic issue in which sources differ to which Gordon devotes an entire chapter. Reblogged this on battleoftheatlantic19391945 and commented: [91] Due to the speed at which she sank, 862 officers and ratings were killed,[54][92] including two who died of their wounds after being rescued. [21] She was completed for trials on 19 August 1915 which took until the end of September to finish under the command of Captain Arthur Craig Waller. [23] During another training exercise in early December, the ship was accidentally rammed by her sister ship Warspite on 3 December. [93][Note 6] Captain Geoffrey Cooke went down with his ship. For the rest of the war, except for the inconclusive action of 19 August 1916, her service generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. [54] Reinforced by the battleship Resolution and the aircraft carrier Ark Royal from Force H, Barham departed Gibraltar for Freetown, Sierra Leone, four days later. A few months later, now under the command of Captain Richard Hill,[53] the ship again retained her position as the 1st Battle Squadron was split in two and the Queen Elizabeths of the new 1st Battle Squadron were transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet on 1 November 1924. Neilson Larry 05/01/2011. During her abbreviated sea trials on 6 July 1916, Barham only reached a mean top speed of 23.91 knots (44.28km/h; 27.52mph). Most of those who died were in two lifeboats that were smashed just as they were about to be saved. Barham was then transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet, where she covered multiple Malta convoys. The anti-torpedo bulge was essentially destroyed adjacent to the strike, with four men killed and two wounded. HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. . Two of the others detonated upon striking the waterline armour, but failed to penetrate. [Note 5], Evan-Thomas continued his turn until his ships were steering due north, which interposed the 5th Battle Squadron between Hipper's battlecruisers,[38] which had reversed course around 16:48 to follow Beatty north,[39] and Beatty's ships. [54] Captain Henry Horan assumed command on 28 July 1937, although he only remained in command until 22 April 1938 when he was relieved by Captain Algernon Willis. They set several merchant ships on fire, but again failed to hit the latter at a range of 17,000 yards (15,500m) before breaking off fire at 13:20. [53] The ship was relieved as flagship by Revenge in June[54] and she was ordered to Palestine in August where her crew helped to suppress rioting in Haifa and also operated the Haifa-Jerusalem railroad. She participated in the Battle of Dakar in mid-1940, where she damaged a Vichy French battleship and was slightly damaged in return. Fragments from this hit caused flooding that spread throughout the bow, while the ship's speed caused water to enter directly through the hole in the side. Barham. Strange, if you think the ship was destroyed in 1941! It is just over 49 years since H.M.S. The battleships were providing distant cover to the light cruisers of Force B[1], engaged in searching for the German merchantsMaritzaandProcida (see also this link and this link). The video of HMS Barhams loss can seen here, in the context of the overall newsreel. "The Moon and Mars are mapped to a greater degree of accuracy than our seabed. Beatty continued south for another two minutes to confirm the sighting before ordering his force to turn north, towards the Grand Fleet in what came to be known as the "Run to the North". The ship had a range of 5,000 nautical miles (9,260km; 5,754mi) at a cruising speed of 12 knots (22.2km/h; 13.8mph). [54] Captain James Somerville relieved Monroe on 1 December and he was relieved in his turn on 16 March 1929 by Captain John C. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Once the news had come through around 1630 hours that Force K out of Malta had sunk these, the battleships turned for Alexandria. The Germans opened fire first at 15:48, followed by the British battlecruisers. The BdU (Commander Submarines) noted in his war diary the rather jubilant: U331 1 battleship torpedoed in the Mediterranean. They even attempted to blame the sinking on Winston Churchill, who on that very day - 3 September, 1939 - was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. One of these hits also started several major fires inside the hull. The last shell passed all the way through the ship without detonating; it struck and dislodged a 100-millimetre (3.9in) armour plate on the waterline on the other side of the ship that caused also some flooding. 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No hits were observed and the ships stopped firing after making their turn north, but Barham opened fire for a short time when they fell in line with the Grand Fleet a few minutes later, probably without making any hits. The turbines were rated at 75,000 shaft horsepower (56,000kW) and intended to reach a maximum speed of 25 knots (46.3km/h; 28.8mph). [7], Barham received a series of minor refits during the 1920s. [35], At 16:30, the light cruiser Southampton, scouting in front of Beatty's ships, spotted the lead elements of the High Seas Fleet coming north at top speed. They hit Ltzow, Derfflinger and Seydlitz three times each between 17:19 and about 18:05. Evan-Thomas turned northeast at around 18:06 and then made a slow turn to the southeast once he spotted the Grand Fleet. A salvo of torpedoes from a German submarine struck from close range on HMS Barham on November 25, 1941 in the Mediterranean. At 17:45 he turned eastwards to take his position in front of the Grand Fleet and re-engage Hipper's ships. She was hit six times during the battle, five times by 30.5cm shells and once by a 28.3cm shell, suffering casualties of 26 killed and 46 wounded. She was present when the High Seas Fleet surrendered for internment on 21 November. [54] On 14 October 1925, Captain Francis Marten relieved Hill, but he retained command only until 9 March 1926 when Captain Joseph Henley assumed command. Your email address will not be published. She departed Scapa Flow that day, escorted by four destroyers,[68] and rendezvoused with the troop convoy en route to Gibraltar[69] where she arrived on 2 September. [96] The sinking was captured on film by a cameraman from Path News, aboard Valiant. Hamilton. HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth -class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. How surprising were the M3 Grant tanks to the Germans? Naval Historical Review, Biographies and personal histories, WWII operations Ship sinking, Survivor, HMS Barham, Australian Naval History Podcasts [74] During this time Barham was struck by a 24cm shell that penetrated through the superstructure before exploding with little effect and without causing any casualties. This was replaced by a torpedo rangefinder in early 1928 when the permanent position was installed in the remodelled spotting top. Barham quickly capsized to port and was lying on her side when a massive magazine explosion occurred about four minutes after she was torpedoed and sank her. [73], After the expiration of an ultimatum to surrender the following morning, the battleships engaged the port's 24-centimetre (9.4in) coast-defence guns and Richelieu at 09:30. Ten minutes later, the ship radioed "Two cruisers, probably hostile, in sight" They were actually two German destroyers that had stopped to check a Danish merchant ship's papers. The fore funnel was trunked into the aft funnel to reduce smoke in the spotting top. These recordings can be accessed through Apple iTunes or for Android users, Stitcher. Barham played a minor role in quelling the 1929 Palestine riots and the 19361939 Arab revolt in Palestine. This meant that the 5th Battle Squadron and the light cruisers were the sole targets available for the German ships until after his turn, although the worsening visibility hampered both sides' shooting. BARHAM was torpedoed by U.331 and lost off the Western Desert of Egypt - off Sollum and Sidi Barrani. 862 men went down with her, and her end was filmed by a war correspondent on board one of the escorting destroyers. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Path is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance.British Path also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. Another sweep began on 6 March, but had to be abandoned the following day as the weather grew too severe for the escorting destroyers. The wreck of a Royal Navy warship which sank in 1682 while carrying the future king James Stuart has been identified off the coast of Norfolk. search wreck . HMS Barham (04) [+1941] Details general nationality: british purpose: war type: battleship subtype/class: Queen Elisabeth class battleship class propulsion: steam turbine date built: 1913 status: dead (not found) Richard grew up in Penrith Road, Belgrave, joining the Royal Navy as a boy seaman, aged 15. However, I can vividly recall the sinking as though it were yesterday. Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1939, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1941. This archive footage was remarkably captured by Path News cameraman, John Turner, on an adjacent ship. The only contact came in the evening when Tyrwhitt sighted the High Seas Fleet but was unable to achieve an advantageous attack position before dark, and broke off contact. Clinging to a piece of wreckage, Richard was picked up by an Australian destroyer, along with other survivors. At the going down of the SUN, AND in the MORNING; WE WILL REMEMBER THEM, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM!! It is also renowned for the shocking footage shown on Pathe News and more recently watched almost two million times on YouTube recording the listing ship being blown to pieces when its magazine exploded. [47] On the evening of 18 August, the Grand Fleet put to sea in response to a message deciphered by Room 40 that indicated that the High Seas Fleet, minus II Squadron, would be leaving harbour that night. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. [44], Hipper turned his ships southward around 18:05 to fall back upon Scheer's advancing battleships and then reversed course five minutes later. I assumed that this had happened because the submarine Captain had fired all his bow tubes at once, and had not compensated quickly enough with seawater to keep the conning tower below the surface. The Queen Elizabeth class warship was the only British battleship to be sunk at sea by a U-boat during the conflict. He eventually lost his life in a confrontation in 1941 when his U-110 boat was forced to the surface after being damaged by depth charges. At 18:17 he realised that Marlborough was actually at the rear of the formation and he ordered a turn to the north to bring his squadron into line behind the Grand Fleet. The translated detailed report of the attack by U-331 can be found at this link. Before leaving the Bridge to make my attempt to escape, the conning tower of a submarine surfaced about one hundred and fifty yards from the port side, and remained exposed for perhaps half a minute before the U boat dived again. 203, 205, Jellicoe, pp. "I was disorientated but reached out and felt the ship. P.W and staff moved to MALAYA and QUEEN ELIZABETH, and Rear Admiral B.S. To control these guns a temporary High-Angle Control Position was mounted above the torpedo-control tower aft. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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The list of men lost is at this link. [53] Together with her sister Malaya, Barham was sent to Alexandria, Egypt, in May 1927 during a time of unrest. The following day, 1 October, Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas, commander of the 5th Battle Squadron, hoisted his flag aboard his new flagship. Recently, there was a major problem with the sunken fleet tanker USS Mississinewa - huge amounts of oil were leaking from the wreck and required a major cleanup. [15], The Queen Elizabeth class was ordered as part of the 1912 Naval Programme and the contract for Barham was awarded to John Brown & Company. The British captured the submarine and took possession of its Enigma cipher machine. First published on Mon 12 Sep 2016 11.41 EDT. Experience the final moments of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship, HMS Barham, when it was struck by torpedoes from a German submarine during World War II which resulted in a terrifying explosion. [94], It was not until the Admiralty admitted that Barham had been sunk and described the circumstances that Tiesenhausen knew that he had sunk her. BARHAM's explosion after being torpedoed. She became a private ship in January of that year and was refitted at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in FebruaryJuly. This increased her metacentric height to about 7 feet (2.1m) at deep load, despite the increase in her deep displacement to 35,970 long tons (36,550t). "I remember so many faces of my friends and shipmates who weren't as fortunate as me.". Richard Laland is one of only two survivors from the doomed battleship HMS Barham still alive today. Spiritualism: A Critical Survey. The Royal Navy's Room 40 had intercepted and decrypted German radio traffic containing plans of the operation. [86], In mid-April she escorted the fast transport MVBreconshire, together with Warspite and Valiant, from Alexandria to Malta before the battleships bombarded Tripoli on the evening of 20 April. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. On 26 March, the Italian fleet sortied in an attempt to intercept British convoys to Greece. 862 men went down with her, and her end was filmed by a war correspondent on board one of the escorting During the 1920s and 1930s, the ship was assigned to the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Home Fleets. [16] The ship, named after Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham,[17] was laid down at their Clydebank shipyard on 24 February 1913 and launched on 31 December 1914. [22], Barham joined the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow the next day and participated in a fleet training operation west of Orkney during 25 November. The boat dived out of control after she broached, reaching an indicated depth of 265 metres (869ft), well below her design depth rating of 150 metres (490ft), before she stabilised without any damage. David Mearns, who has found some two dozen major wrecks for insurers and TV companies, says the Athenia's hull is visible in sonar data acquired by the Geological Survey of Ireland. On 21 April, the Grand Fleet conducted a demonstration off Horns Reef to distract the Germans while the Russian Navy relaid its defensive minefields in the Baltic Sea. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. The interrogation report following the sinking of U-331 in late 1942 give further detail of the sinking of HMS Barham at this link. 1. [25] On 21 May, the 5th Battle Squadron was attached to Beatty while his 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron was detached for gunnery training and arrived at Rosyth the following day. Copyright 2023. [5], The waterline belt of the Queen Elizabeth class consisted of Krupp cemented armour (KC) that was 13 inches (330mm) thick over the ships' vitals. 377, 386, Admiralty Historical Section, pp. [8] Two years later, her anti-aircraft defences were upgraded when the original three-inch AA guns were replaced with a pair of QF four-inch (102mm) Mk V AA guns between November 1924 and January 1925 and another pair of four-inch AA guns were added from October to November later that year. His expertise means he has been appointed as a judge on the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a $7m incentive to get engineering groups to develop innovative seafloor mapping technologies and strategies. IWM FL1472. In addition the torpedo-control tower aft was replaced by an air-defence position during that same refit. This is the only British battleship sunk by the U-boat during this war. 219220; Raven & Roberts, p. 359; Shores, Cull & Malizia, pp. Quora User The main conning tower was protected by 13 inches (330mm) of armour. A member of the Wigston branch of the Royal Naval Association, he is a member of the HMS Barham Association. In the end, the TV idea was dropped, but Mr Mearns still hopes an expedition can be mounted by someone. Three minutes later another shell hit the aft superstructure, severing the antenna cables of the main wireless station. Throughout the next day, Jellicoe and Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, commander of the High Seas Fleet, received conflicting intelligence; after reaching the location in the North Sea where they expected to encounter the High Seas Fleet, the British turned north in the erroneous belief that they had entered a minefield. [42] Barham returned fire at the battlecruisers at 17:02, together with Valiant, the two northernmost of Evan-Thomas's ships, and the two of them made three hits on the battlecruiser SMSSeydlitz and Ltzow between 17:06 and 17:13 while Barham was hit twice more by Derfflinger; although neither of the hits did any significant damage. The attack on an unarmed passenger liner was a clear breach of international protocols. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Lemp fired four torpedoes at the two capital ships,[64] and one struck Barham on her port side, adjacent to the shell rooms for 'A' and 'B' turrets. The HMS Barham was torpedoed by U-331, a German c-class submarine captained by Freiherr Von Tiesenhausen, and sunk in. During the next eighteen months or so, the 1st B.S. And now within range of the battleships of the 3rd Squadron which opened fire on the 5th Battle Squadron as they made their turn. [61], Barham remained part of the Mediterranean Fleet at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. Pridham-Wippell), and Squadron Signal Officer of the 1st Battle Squadron. The detonation blew a 7-by-7-foot (2.1 by 2.1m) hole in the main deck, sent fragments through the middle and lower decks and burned out the casemate for starboard No. The following morning, they were spotted by an aircraft from the carrier Formidable and the Battle of Cape Matapan began. [63], Barham, the battlecruiser Repulse and the destroyers Fame, Icarus, Imogen, Isis and Nubian were on patrol off the Butt of Lewis to protect against a possible break-out into the Atlantic by German warships when they were spotted by the German submarineU-30, commanded by Fritz-Julius Lemp, on 28 December. The 92-year-old, from Leicester, miraculously escaped death when the ship was sunk by a. [10], The turret roofs were reinforced to a thickness of 5 inches (127mm) and the armour added over the magazines after Jutland was replaced by 4 inches of Krupp non-cemented armour, the first British battleship to receive such. U.331 was under the command of Freiherr Diedrich von Tiesenhausen who was a lieutenant of 26 years of age. 2023 BBC. Each turret was also fitted with a 15-foot rangefinder. The anti-aircraft (AA) armament were composed of two quick-firing (QF) 3-inch (76mm) 20cwt Mk I[Note 1] guns. They and the sacrifice they made will never be forgotten. [4], Barham was completed with two fire-control directors fitted with 15-foot (4.6m) rangefinders. The Board of Enquiry into the sinking ascribed the final explosion to a fire in the 4-inch magazines outboard of the main 15-inch magazines, which would have then spread to and detonated the contents of the main magazines. Her complete service history can be found. Actually, my last time in Pearl (around 1994) I saw petrol bubbles coming from the wreck. Huge palls of smoke rising from the stricken ship. "I dived in headfirst, but as I did, the ship rolled again and I smashed my head on the hull and was knocked unconscious.". After several minutes it became apparent that the squadron was not conforming to Beatty's other ships, but Evan-Thomas refused to change course until clear instructions had been received despite entreaties from the Barham's captain. [54] Dalglish was relieved in his turn by Captain Percy Noble on 18 October 1922. Last modified on Wed 15 Jun 2022 10.44 EDT. Website with searchable ship database about warships, passenger liners, merchant ships, photo galleries, technical details, stories, news and much more. I was in H.M.S. She was briefly deployed to Haifa in May 1936 at the beginning of the Arab revolt in Palestine. The ships were fitted with four submerged 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, two on each broadside. [33] About three minutes later, the ship opened fire on the battlecruiser SMSvon der Tann at a range of about 23,000 yards (21,000m). Website with searchable ship database about warships, passenger liners, merchant ships, photo galleries, technical details, stories, news and much more. It was something Donaldson had made when the ship was built," she told BBC News. They were designed to reduce the effect of torpedo detonations and improve stability[11] at the cost of widening the ship's beam by almost 14 feet (4.3m) to 104 feet (31.7m),[12] and reduced her draught to 32feet 6inches (9.9m). Hipper ordered his ships to turn to starboard, away from the British, to assume a south-easterly course, and reduced speed to 18 knots (33km/h; 21mph) to allow three light cruisers of the 2nd Scouting Group to catch up. 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