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.