Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Barham explodes & sinks in the Mediterranean Sea after being hit by German torpedoes (25th Nov 1941)



by Krigshistorie

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    i read the uboat logs of the sub that sunk her,

    they thought the explosion may have been there second torpedo so never actually knew if and what they may have sunk. after some time the germans figured out the Barham missing and being to make bards on radio so the families could then mourn in public,

    in the actual attack after they fired they made a rapid turn and dive, so much so that there stern pierced the surface, right in front of one of the destroyers meant to protect her, only a few hundred meters from Barham herself. The sailors where so shocked they failed to land any shots against the uboat. Before the attack the destroyer detected the uboat by sonar but ignored it as the contact was more than ~40′ wide. typically uboat contacts would be effectively point sources. The uboat captain got a Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

  6. For those in peril on the sea. GOD bless them and theres.

  7. There were a LOT of men on the side of the ship as it rolled over and blew.

  9. As she flips on her side are all thos little black dots the sailers or was the ship empty. If they were ppl imagine the force they felt

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