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Saturday 12 December 2015

British battleship Barham 1914-at least 1923

Queen Elizabeth type. Launched in 1914, completed in 1916, displacement 27.500 tons, horsepower 75.000, oil-fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 8-15” guns, 12-6” guns, 2-3’ anti aircraft guns, 1-12pd field gun, 19-3pd guns and machineguns and 4 submerged torpedo tubes.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923