During the evacuation of Crete, HMS Barham was bombarding the airfield at Scarpanto when she was attacked in mid morning by fifteen enemy aircraft, which appeared from the East on May 27th 1941. One ...
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.