The sinking of HMS Barham, 1941 (HD).

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1. Incredible footage. Never thought I’d see ww2 footage in this quality

2. This is amazing quality for the 1940’s.

3. There’s so much going on in this clip. The men jumping over the railing, climbing over the sides, and then a massive explosion, all in HD from 83 years ago. Crazy.

4. Was sunk after being hit by 3 torpedos of u-331(which made it home, not knowing it had sunk the ship) in the med. 862 people died due to the sinking/explosion and, from what i gathered, around 500 were saved from the water.

5. Narrated by the guy from War of the Worlds.

6. Its gives so much life now that its colored. Almost like this war happened yesterday

7. Big Bada Boom

8. I’ve only seen the original clip so to see this cleaned up like this is quite surreal. I think that’s why these most recent wars have really effected the public because the footage is all being captured in 4k.

9. 😳

10. Horrifying.

11. What’s the “after magazine”?

12. This video never ceases to amaze and horrify, that section of hull that blew out had hundreds of men scrambling over it. Most of whom probably thought they’d got away with it.

13. I wonder if you have a greater chance of surviving the blast on the remains of the ship (but shielded from the blast) or in the water?

14. 862 lives lost….. The aft magazine blew up just 4 minutes after being torpedoed.

    Damn…. Even if you weren’t injured during the attack; having less than 4 minutes to get off the ship–the ship that had capsized ~90′ to port: so trying to get to the starboard side to get off the ship required **climbing** **UP** would have been difficult, if not totally disorientating.

    That’s assuming you were NOT required to stay at your battle station until commanded to abandon ship. I’m sure the ship had set Condition Zebra (or the British equivalent) which means all water-tight hatches, doors & scuttles were sealed.

    Unless the attack was completely devastating–and it was–having your ship “zipped-up” would give you the best chances of staying afloat and allowing sailors to coordinate damage control and evacuation (& rescue).

    Sometimes the odds are stacked-up against you.

15. Was this the steam boilers exploding? (As in the first explosion)

16. Amazing footage indeed. Honestly I think the magazine blowing up was a blessing for those guys. Can’t imagine the terror within the ship for those 4 minutes.

17. Absolutely chilling footage.

18. My wife’s grandfather survived this. This was the third ship he had been on that was torpedoed. When they brought him and other survivors to the US, he was asking to get assigned to another ship that was in port in NYC but they told him to chill out.

    That ship was also torpedoed enroute to Britain and no one survived.

19. Must have had some white phosphorus on it.

20. Masterly remastered, nice work.

21. Most colorizations and youtube “remasterings” are god awful clickbait garbage but this is very well done.

    I can’t even imagine what it must have been like being one of the lucky few who got topside and was standing on the hull waiting to jump to relative safety only to have the entire world explode around you. Let alone the poor souls who may have survived the initial blast forward only to be smashed by that gigantic piece of deck plating coming down on the foredeck.

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