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 ...

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 ...

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.