The sudden end of HMS Barham
25th November 1941: Royal Navy battleship immediately keels over after being hit by three torpedoes
The 1st Battle Squadron, comprising the battleships HMS Barham, Queen Elizabeth, and Valiant left Alexandria in Egypt on the 24th November as part of of an operation to intercept German supply convoys crossing to Libya. On the 25th the U-boat U-331 m…
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