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” ...
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 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 ...