Wow. That wasn't a torpedo impact. If you read the little article that came with it, that was her aft magazine exploding. She looked like she did before the explosion because of three torpedos.
"On 25 November 1941, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys, Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331, commanded by Lieutenant Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen. As she rolled over to port, her after magazines exploded and the ship quickly sank with the loss of over two-thirds of her crew."
Hit from only 750 yards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_(1914)#Sinking
Over 800 crew went down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_E...cond_World_War
I'm a little stunned. I was watching the smoke coming off of her, thinking that it was no big deal. Couldn't hardly make much out with the white smoke against the white clouds. Then the magazine blew. I actually jumped. The first thought through my head was "There were people still on her".
I think I'm going to put the game up for a bit. No, not done with it. I know I'm going to come back to it, but it was sureal for me. While not in the Navy, I am in the Army and I am leaving for a year in a couple of months. Not looking for sympathy or anything like that (knew what I was doing when I signed the dotted line), just explaining my POV is all.
You know it's real. I mean, you
know it's real. But every now and then something
drives it home. Hard. You know?