The following are extracts from censored letters written from the Barham by my father, Surgeon-Commander E.R.Sorley, RN. These cover the bombardment of Tripoli and serious damage to Barham from ...

The following are extracts from censored letters written from the Barham by my father, Surgeon-Commander E.R.Sorley, RN. The Barham spent two months undergoing repairs to bilges and the damage to “Y” ...

JAN 28, 1942: The hardy-but-hapless HMS Barham was revealed to have sunk – with her explosion caught on camera – on this day in 1942 following two months of official silence. The battleship, which had ...

Richard Laland is one of only two survivors from the doomed battleship HMS Barham still alive today. The 92-year-old, from Leicester, miraculously escaped death when the ship was sunk by a German ...

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 ...

The following are extracts from censored letters written from the Barham by my father, Surgeon-Commander E.R.Sorley, RN. These cover the bombardment of Tripoli and serious damage to Barham from ...