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 ...

Stories categorised in 'HMS Barham'. These stories may contain references to other themes. However, on Christmas Eve, I met with Hearson ashore and we had a quiet evening enjoying good food and... The ...

How do you know if she’s a witch? Does she float in water like very small rocks? Like a duck? In 1944, the line between “Monty Python” and reality blurred when Helen Duncan, a Scottish medium who ...

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 ...