HMS BARHAM was build at John Brown shipbuilders,
Clydebank and launched 31st December 1914, Took part at Jutland was hit
six times and was under repair for 5 weeks. Between the wars. she served
in the Mediterranean from 1935 but was attached to the Home Fleet in the
autumn of 1939. on the 28th December 1939 she was torpedoed by U-30 and
was under repair till April 1940. She took part in the Bombardment of
the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir in July 1940 and the Battle of Cape
Matapan in march 1941, also at the Bombardment of Bardia and Tripoli.
She was damaged by a 500KG bomb off Crete on the 27th May 1941, and
repaired at Alexandria by the end of July 1941. HMS Barham was torpedoed
and sunk by U-331 off Soloum on the 25th November 1941. only 396 of her
crew were saved from a compliment of 1,258.
Compliment 1,124 to 1,258. Armament 8 15-inch Guns and
12 6-inch guns and 8 4-inch A.A Guns 16 2-pdr AA Guns and 1 aircraft.
Speed 24 knots, Displacement 31,100 tons.
HMS Eagle was built at Clydebank, and was launched on
the 8th pf June 1918, a former Battleship construction suspended in
1914. during world war two HMS Eagle served off China in 1939, East
Indies 1939 - 1940, Mediterranean in 1940 - 1941. and in the South
Atlantic 1941 - 1942 and Force H in 1942, she was sunk by U-73, North of
Algiers on the 11th August 1942.
