Home > HMS Barham (1914)
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| Career
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| Ordered: |
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| Laid down: | February 24, 1913
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| Launched: | October 31, 1914
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| Commissioned: | October 19, 1915
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| Fate: | Sunk November 25, 1941
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| General Characteristics (original configuration)
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| Displacement: | 29,150 tons (standard) 33,000 tons (full load)
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| Length: | 643 feet 3 inches (196 m)
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| Beam: | 104 feet (31.7 m)
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| Draught: | 33 feet (10 m)
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| Propulsion: | 24 Babcock & Wilcox 3-drum boilers, 4 parsons geared turbines, 4 shafts
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| Speed: | 25 knots (when commissioned)
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| Range: | 8,600 nm at 12.5 knots
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| Complement: | 1,124–1,184
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| Armament: | Eight 15-inch guns in four twin mounts, fourteen 6-inch guns in single mounts, two 12-pound guns, four 21-inch torpedo tubes
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| Armor: | 6–13 inch midships belt, 2.5–5 inch deck, 13 inch turret face, 11 inch conning tower sides
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HMS Barham was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy named after Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, built at the John Brown shipyards in Clydebank, and launched in 1914.
In World War I, she collided with her sister-ship Warspite in 1915. In 19161916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints Water Lilies'. January 8 Allied forces withdraw from, she was Admiral Hugh Evan-ThomasSir Hugh Evan-Thomas ( 1852 1928) was an admiral of the Royal Navy. In World War I he commanded the 5th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet, flying his flag from HMS Barham and fought at the battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. Evan-Thomas, Hugh Evan-Thomas,'s flagship of the 5th Battle SquadronCreated in 1915, the 5th Battle Squadron was a part of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet in World War I and was comprised of Queen Elizabeth class battleships. In 1916 the 5th Battle Squadron was temporarily transferred to David Beatty's Battlecruiser Fleet. temporarily attached to Admiral David BeattyDavid Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty ( 1871- 1936), born in County Wexford, Ireland, was an admiral in the Royal Navy. After joining the Royal Navy in 1884, Beatty gained recognition in the recapture of the Sudan ( 1896- 1899) and the Boxer Rebellion ( 1900).'s Battlecruiser Fleet at the battle of JutlandThe Battle of Jutland known in Germany as the Battle of the Skagerrak Skagerrakschlacht , was the largest naval battle of World War I, and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31 June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Ju, where she received five hits and fired 337 shells.
In World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough she operated in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. She was damaged by a German submarine torpedo in December 1939, while at sea north of the British Isles. In September 1940, she engaged the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar, Senegal. Barham was in the Mediterranean in 1941, taking part in the battle of Cape Matapan in March and receiving bomb damage in May. On 25 November 1941, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys, Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331 . As she rolled over to port, her after magazines exploded and the ship quickly sank with the loss of over two-thirds of her crew.
See HMS Barham for other ships of this name.
