HMS Barham

Several Royal Navy ships were named HMS Barham . Name giver was Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (1726–1813), who a. a. Was First Lord of the Admiralty . These ships were:

• HMS Barham (1811) , a 74-gun third rank ship of the line that was scrapped in 1834. She is known u. a. through the journey of the writer Sir Walter Scott , who traveled with it to Malta in 1831 .
• HMS Barham (1860), a wooden screw frigate whose construction contract has been canceled
• HMS Barham (1889) , a third rank cruiser stationed in the Mediterranean Sea that was scrapped in 1914. She was the type ship of the Barham class , her only sister ship was the HMS Bellona .
• HMS Barham (1914) , a Queen Elizabeth class battleship that took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak during World War I and was sunk in the Mediterranean by the German submarine U 331 in 1941.

literature

• JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy, The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present . Chatham Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X , pp. 31 .