Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The top 50 Kriegsmarine commanders sank an astonishing 1,153 vessels totalling 6.1million tons between them. Yet the Barham was ...

A month after the onset of WW2, HMS Barham and the other battleships of 1st Battle Squadron were taken from the Mediterranean Fleet to re-inforce the Home Fleet. By the end of 1939, the only British ...

This is a transcript of part of a two letters sent home by P Stanley Richardson, who served in the Royal Navy. (March 1941) ……I expect you heard over the wireless ...

Some of history's most dramatic maritime disasters happened with cameras rolling, leaving behind extraordinary footage of real ships in their final moments. This video examines the filmed losses of ...

The sinking of HMS Barham became one of the most dramatic naval disasters ever captured on film. After being struck by German torpedoes during World War II, the battleship suffered a catastrophic ...

The full story of the disintegration of the battleship HMS Barham a few minutes after it was hit by three torpedoes in 1941 will be recalled in the fifth issue of ...

A Royal Navy veteran has described witnessing one of the worst tragedies of World War Two. The attack on HMS Barham by a German U-boat in November 1941 cost the lives of more than 860 British sailors.

The attack on HMS Barham by a German U-boat in November 1941 cost the lives of more than 860 British sailors. Len Chivers, 99, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, witnessed the sinking of the battleship from ...

In Remember When 57, we carry the story of George Marshall, who married Joyce Sharples. The couple had never met, although they were both from Gatshead, but after a two-year courtship, by letter, as ...