Film of the sinking of HMS Barham
 

The sinking of HMS Barham ...now if that ain't no terrible explosion... :o

Haven't downloaded it, but I know the piece of film you mean. One of her magazines blew up as she went over.

Yea Ive seen pictures of it before... what a catastrophe... :(

Wow...when you think of the size of that ship and then see the size of that explosion...

wow...

~DeePsix
Commander U-48

:o :o :o :o :o

I am shocked.

I saw the video, and IMHO is the sea water through the funnels to the engines room. the engine boilers full of steam exploded.

kerrr BOOOOOM!

Sorry, Aylebard, but thats not a boiler explosion. Its the magazine blowing up.

On a ship like the Barham, even with high pressure watertube boilers, the only evidence you'd see of a boiler explosion would be what blew out of the funnel.

Good stuff.

Mirror (55MB), just in case bandwidth runs dry at the original site.

Thank you very much Lady! :yep:
Maybe you could also add a mirror to the low bandwith version of the video for the modem user out there ? :hmm:

Wow! :o

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Cant imagine the feeling being inside that big ship while it is capsizing.And the blast was just huge..Brave souls.

I am a former member of Titanic Historical Society and as a amateaur expert, the Braham exploded from her forward magzines. As you view the video clip, you see that it was too devastating to be a boiler explosion and it was forward of the boilerroom. It seems like it begins at the waterline or above it. Not beneath it like a boiler explosion.

JayW.

The Yamato's magazine exploded as she was sinking, too. I don't think there is a video available, but if you look at a picture of the wreck, you can imagine how big the explosion must have been. :o

http://www.warship.get.net.pl/Japoni..._wreck_01.html

And here's a diagram as well.

[img] http://www.finescale.com/fsm/communi...?TOPIC_ID=6350 [/img]

:o Imagine the explosion of the world's biggest battleship.

Every article I can find on the Barham's loss states the aft magazine exploded, not the forward one.

I wish the BB's ingame could explode like that.

IIRC 800-plus crew were killed, including the captain. Escorts rescued the admiral on board and a few hundred officers and men. It's always been a bit surprising to me that the ship sank so fast and then exploded. She was a WWI battleship but I thought she was much better protected than, say, the "Hood" and the capital ships lost at Jutland. I guess even the best armored WWI ships just didn't have enough armor, or maybe the design neglected underwater protection.

I don't remember ever seeing that clip, I have seen pictures, but never actual film. Wow, she was over 200 meters in lenght, it gives you the scale of the explosion.
About the cause... to me, it looks like she exploded soon after she rolled over to her side, and first thing I though that the boiler room explosion caused her magazine to explode.

Well, ships do explode in SH3, not just that magnitude. SH3 runs smoothly in my computer but explosion are frame-rate killers.

I remember reading that in Jutland, many ships exploded like that.