| Date |
Event |
| 24 February 1913 |
Laid John Brown, Clydebank, Glasgow. |
| 13 October 1914 |
Launched Glasgow. |
| 05 November 1915 |
Commissioned. |
| 01 December 1915 |
Minor collision with HMS Warspite. |
| 31 May 1916 |
Battle of Jutland, 26 killed, 37 wounded from Barham. |
| 1933? |
Refit, two funnels trunked into one. |
| 1934 |
Donald Maclean trains on Barham. Lieut.Comdr. Ranald is pilot of 'Swordfish'. |
| 12 December 1939 |
Collision with HMS Duchess off Mull of Kyntire. Duchess sinks |
| 28th December 1939 |
Torpedoed by U30 below Canteen Flat, off Flannan Isles. To Liverpool for repairs. |
| 5th January 1940 |
8 Ganges Boys join skeleton crew from Portsmouth barracks. |
| May/June 1940 |
Crew member falls to death in Liverpool - Military funeral with Royal Marine Band |
| June 1940 |
Leaves Dry Dock Liverpool. |
| June 1940 |
Two men overboard during Destroyer refuelling exercises - rescued by Destroyer. |
| June 1940 |
During flooding tests, HMS Barham successfully rolls to port, 28 degrees. |
| July 1940 |
Firing Exercises Scapa Flow. |
| August 1940 |
Freetown |
| 23/26 September 1940 |
Bombardment of Dakar, 'Supermarine Walrus' pilot shot down, other casualties? |
| 23/26 September 1940 |
Barham swerves to avoid 3 torpedoes, which then strike HMS Royal Sovereign. |
| 26 September 1940 |
HMS Royal Sovereign, listing, is towed by HMS Barham to Freetown. |
| November 1940 |
Attempted torpedoing of Barham by Italian Frogmen at Detached Mole, Gibraltar. |
| 6th November 1940 |
To Malta with HMS Berwick, HMS Glasgow. Joined East Med. Fleet. |
| 11th Novenber 1940 |
Attacked Taranto with HMS Illustrious. Then to Alexandria. |
| 2nd January 1941 |
Bombarded Bardia. |
| 28 March 1941 |
Battle of Matapan, Barham helps sink cruiser Zara. Juno picks up Italian survivors. |
| April 1941 |
Bombarded Tripoli. |
| 25 May 1941 |
Scarpanto airfield bombarded. Stuka bomb explodes in a turret of Barham. |
| 27 May 1941 |
Barham, QE, Formidable covering last supplies to Suda Bay Crete. |
| 01 June 1941 |
Crete evacuation completed. |
| June 1941 |
Through Suez Canal to Durban for repairs. Signal staff work at Guildhall. |
| Aug/Sep 1941 |
Returned to Alexandria, bombarded Tripoli. |
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| 24th November 1941 |
Sails from Alexandria, Egypt. |
| 25th November 1941 |
Hit by 3 torpedoes and sunk. |
| 1st December 1941 |
Last casualty on lists dies. |
| mid-December 1941 |
Court of Enquiry HMS Woolwich. |
| 8th December 1941 |
Next of Kin informed missing. |
| 23rd December 1941 |
Next of Kin informed of deaths. |
| 27th January 1942 |
Admiralty communique to Press |
| 27th January 1942 |
Von Tiesenhausen awarded K.C. |
| 23rd February 1942 |
Casualty List published in The Times. |
| April 1942 |
Casualty List published in The Fleet. |
| 1945 |
Admiralty releases film of Sinking. |
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| 1957 |
HMS Barham Survivors Association formed |
