Afundamento do HMS Barham - Filme

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Alguns dados sobre o afundamento:

On 25 November 1941 at 4.25pm, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys with the battleships Queen Elizabeth, Valiantand an escort of eight destroyers, Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331, commanded by LieutenantHans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen. Leading Telegraphist A.R. Bacon remained at his station following the first attack to alert accompanying ships of the presence of U-331, which greatly aided the search and rescue. The torpedoes were fired from a range of only 750 yards providing no time for evasive action, and struck so closely together as to throw up a single massive water column. As she rolled over to port, her magazines exploded and she quickly sank with the loss of nearly two thirds of the crew. The explosion was caught on camera by Gaumont News cameraman John Turner, who was on the deck of the nearby Valiant. Out of a crew of approximately 1,184 officers and men, 841 were killed. The survivors were rescued by the other British ships

The Admiralty was immediately notified of the sinking. Within a few hours they also learned that the German High Command did not know the Barham had been sunk: Tiesenhausen had not reported the sinking, as he had been forced to dive to evade the escorting ships before Barham exploded, and heard only the detonation of the torpedo.^[26] He could not be sure whether he had sunk Barham, or if she had merely been damaged and left the scene before he resurfaced.^[26] It was not until the Admiralty's admission on 27 January 1942 thatBarham had been sunk and described the circumstances that Tiesenhausen knew that he had sunk her.^[26] He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross that day.^[26]

In an effort to conceal the sinking from the Germans and to protect British morale, the Admiralty censored all news of Barham's destruction.^{[citation needed]} After a delay of several weeks the War Office notified next of kin, but they added a special request for secrecy: the notification letters included a warning not to discuss the loss of the ship with anyone but close relatives, stating it was "most essential that information of the event which led to the loss of your husband's life should not find its way to the enemy until such time as it is announced officially..."^{[citation needed]}

By late January 1942, the German High Command had realised Barham had been lost. The Admiralty informed the press on 27 January 1942 and explained the rationale for withholding the news.^{[citation needed]}

A Royal Navy Court of Enquiry into the sinking ascribed the final magazine explosion to the detonation en masse of 4-inch anti-aircraft ammunition stored in wing passages adjacent to the main magazines, which would have detonated the contents of the main magazines. Experience of prolonged air attacks in earlier operations had shown that the stowage capacity of the AA magazines was inadequate, hence extra ammunition was shipped in any convenient void spaces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_(04)

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