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Officers and Men Killed in
Action or Died of Wounds, H.M.S. Barham, Battle of
Jutland, 31st May -1st June 1916. |
Extract from the
Official History; " Naval Operations" by Sir Julian S. Corbett. 1923
...........As Admiral Beatty ran out of range firing became
intermittent, and within eight minutes ceased altogether. At 5.10 he
reduced to 24 knots, and made his way northward to join the main
fleet.
Away on his port quarter Admiral Evan-Thomas was having
the same trouble. By the time his turn northward was completed he
was some three miles astern of the battle cruisers and nearly
abreast of the Konig, so that he at once became engaged with
Admiral Scheer's van squadron, as well as with Admiral Hipper. To
reduce the range the whole German battle fleet had turned north-west
by divisions, and in this formation was trying to close the range.
The Barham had hardly turned before she was badly hit by a
heavy shell which caused many casualties and wrecked her wireless
gear...... * * * * Barham
Photo
1930s (offsite)
Built by John Brown and Co. Clydebank. Laid down February 1913,
completed October 1915.
Queen Elizabeth Class Dreadnought ("Fast Division").
Normal Displacement 27,500 tons (31,000 to 33,000 full load).
Complement; 955 - 1016. Length 600 feet, beam 90.5 feet.
Machinery; Brown-Curtis turbine, 24 oil fired boilers. design HP
75,000 = 25 kts. Guns, eight at 15 inch, twelve at 6 inch, two at 3
inch, five machine guns, four "3 pdrs" and four 21 inch
submerged broadside torpedo tubes. * * * *
Barham was hit by 6 large calibre projectiles during the battle,
killing 4 officers and 22 men, and wounding 1 officer and 36 men.
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Lieutenant
Reginald Edward Blyth.
Chaplain
Henry Dixon Dixon-Wright. M.V.O. M.A. Fleet
Paymaster
John Spencer Place.
Warrant Telegraphist
Harry Burnell
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Binstead, Charles Henry, A.B. |
Briggs, Henry Charles, S.B.A. |
Davison, Thomas Orr, A.B. (R.N.V.R) |
Easter, Charles, Boy 1. |
Ellis, Arthur, Ord. Tel. |
George, Walter Edmund, A.B. |
Hanson, Frederick Sydney Ord. Tel. |
Heap, Thomas, Ord. Sea. |
Hickman, William, A.B. |
Ineson, Bernard Grimshaw, Boy Tel. |
Johnson, Ralph, Boy 1. |
Jones, William Victor, Boy 1. |
Lamborn, William James, Boy Tel. |
Laverock, Herbert, Ord. Tel. |
McBrinn, Richard Joseph, E.R.A. 3. |
Riddington, Arthur, P.O. |
Taylor, Edwin, Boy 1. |
Tulit, Edward James, Boy 1. |
Tyrrell, George Philip, Ord. Sea. |
Wake, Eric Gordon, Boy Tel. |
Young, Ernest, Sto. 1. |
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