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Laufen zum Ziel
10-08-08, 09:06 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4374553839717114651

More clips like this can be found by clicking my Sig.
Steeltrap
10-08-08, 09:49 PM
HMS Barham, if I'm not mistaken. Hit by 3 torps from U-331.

Ouch....
kylania
10-08-08, 10:06 PM
Only British Battleship sunk by u-boats I think, right? Sad yet spectacular images there. That explosion is just massive.
ivank
10-08-08, 10:10 PM
that ans the Royal Oak
meduza
10-09-08, 05:46 AM
Very impressive :up:
predavolk
10-09-08, 08:13 AM
Cool! I wonder if that was its magazine, or its boilers blowing. I'd guess the latter as it happened just as the funnels hit the water (cold water, meet crazy hot boiler!).
Laufen zum Ziel
10-09-08, 01:35 PM
It was the HMS Barnum and I go along with cold
water meeting hot boilers. I did not see many if
any lifeboats. Wander what the casualties were?
meduza
10-09-08, 01:58 PM
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_%281914%29), her magazines exploded, taking two thirds of the crew down with her (aroun 800 men).
Task Force
10-09-08, 02:05 PM
Wow that ship went out with a bang.:huh: :yep:
Elektranaut
10-11-08, 05:20 AM
http://www.hmsbarham.com/ (http://www.hmsbarham.com/)
Kapt Z
10-11-08, 09:54 AM
It was the HMS Barnum and I go along with cold
water meeting hot boilers. I did not see many if
any lifeboats. Wander what the casualties were?

I've seen a better clip somewhere which is in focus and closer in. You can barely make them out in this clip, but there are hundreds of sailors clinging to her bottom as she rolls and then they are vaporized in the explosion. Truly horrific. :o
Elektranaut
10-11-08, 04:14 PM
It's well worth going to the HMS Barham website(see my link above).In particular check out the survivors' stories which they have posted-horrifying/astonishing/heartbreaking, in equal measure.